To meet these needs, we have developed open, multidisciplinary training materials aimed primarily at several categories of target audience: - European populations living in poverty and food insecurity. Ecological micro-gardening helps people to feed themselves with healthy, seasonal produce, thereby helping to solve the food problems of the European populations most at risk of malnutrition. - To the holders of micro-economic activities centred on market gardening. BEST Microgardens covered economic concepts that would enable microentrepreneurs to build up their prices and strengthen the viability of their project. - those involved in the fight against poverty and food insecurity, by giving them the tools to promote and implement ecological micro-gardening among their target audiences and strengthening their mediation and communication skills, to tackle projects on a small community scale. - organisations promoting gardening, by providing them with resources enabling them to work with social action professionals and disadvantaged groups.
Best Microgardens was developed to promote the micro-gardening model, i.e. gardening in small areas in the ground or above ground, and ecological micro-gardening practices, particularly among European populations in economically disadvantaged or even food insecure situations. The project aimed to respond to the need for food self-sufficiency and food education among disadvantaged groups, particularly in the ultra-peripheral regions where the project was partly based (French Guiana, Canary Islands). The project has also sought to meet the needs of social workers in their efforts to combat food insecurity. Finally, the project sought to meet the objectives of adapting to climate change by promoting ecological practices that save water and inputs.