SEMINAR: Legumes as the Hub of Diversification and Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture

The global population will run out of food unless science can generate sufficient new crops that bear resilience to the current and increasing yield limitations of temperature extremes, water availability and salt tolerance and nutrient efficiency. In short, we need a third food revolution, to succeed the 'industrial revolution' and 'green revolution', which sustained the massive population growth since the 1920s to date.

Against these challenges, research on grain legumes has been neglected despite the wide genetic resources available that can meet future food, fodder, environmental and biofuel demands in the face of the global climate challenges.