The project general objective was to contribute to the environment and climate change mitigation through increased production and consumption of plant-based food as it has been proven in many researches that plat-based food is more environmentally friendly than conventional food based on meat and milk, due to lower greenhouse gas emissions, less impact on biodiversity and use of land and water for food production. To achieve this broad goal, the project aimed to promote plant-based agriculture and consumption through in-depth research on existing promotional strategies and life-long learning opportunities at local, national and EU level, the learning methodology and innovative toolkit based on 5 topics and visual media - comics, the training course for adult educators, trainers, agricultural consultants and lecturers at agricultural schools who work either with producers or consumers in formal or informal education and the e-learning platform with open access either for trainers or individual learners.
Com4AgriPlant was addressing various but interconnected needs, all contributing to the horizontal priority Environment and fight against climate change and sectoral priority Improving competences of educators and adult education staff. The topic of promotion of plant-based production and consumption has not been addressed much yet neither in partner countries nor at EU level. Some strategies and initiatives for promoting plant-based agriculture and consumption exist on policy level but are not implemented sufficiently in practice. The second addressed need is lack of sustainability competences of adult educators and other trainers who have not many opportunities to be educated in this field and lack of innovative methodologies and tools to train their learners on plant-based production and consumption. The third need Com4AgriPlant addressed is lack of knowledge about diverse benefits of plant-based production and consumption on the side of end beneficiaries – food producers and consumers, as the topic is quite new and promotion is limited compared to conventional agriculture and consumption.