Crop diversity is preserved through private and commercial use in gardens and fields and continues evolving with local conditions and gardening/farming selection criteria. The demand for products from this diversity is a key factor for conservation and use.
We perceive biodiversity as a value in itself.
We think globally and act locally.
Humans and cultivated plants are inextricably linked. Hence, conservation through utilization is one of our most important principles.
Ecological thinking and sustainable action are important to us.
We are open tonew developments and methods and critically examine them for their effects on crop diversity.
We act independently to party politics.
We safeguard endangered crops and make them available.
We gather and share information about cultivation, use and multiplication of endangered crop plants.
We advocate for an improvement of the overall social framework for securing crop diversity and its sustainable use.
We work to raise awareness of producers, consumers as well aspolitical and economic leaders by targeted public relation activities.
The successful work of ARCHE NOAH relies on the wide range of activities of its members. The members’ contribution to practical conservation, dissemination and development of crop diversity is essential.
ARCHE NOAH is a network and an organisation. The organisation office perceives itself as a coordination point and an initiator.
The ARCHE NOAH Seeds Handbook is an essential mediumof the members.
The ARCHE NOAH show garden serves as a platform for the exchange of experiences and transfer of knowledge.
To reach our goals we cooperate with partners from a variety of fields, thus using multiple synergies – e.g. regarding the supply of biological seed and plant material of rare varieties and the cultivation and marketing of rare varieties.
We value personal responsibility, trust and transparency as well as mutual respect, good and intensive communication.
We do a good job……
….and feel good doing it!
We are a non-profit organisation. We employ the available resources exclusively to reach our goals and we use them sparingly and efficiently.
When recruiting new members and donors we refrain from using aggressive means.
To safeguard political independence, our key tasks are financed by membership fees, donations from private individuals and the sale of services.
