A university in Portugal coordinates with the European project to promote agrobiodiversity

Developing solutions and tools to “foster agrobiodiversity, combating the agricultural paradigm of monoculture and industrialized agriculture”, is the aim of the new European project Radiant. Funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union, for more than 5.9 million euros, this initiative is coordinated by the Center for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (CBQF), of the School of Biotechnology (ESB) of the Catholic University of Portugal in Porto. With a duration of four years, the project “Radiant – Realizing Dynamic Value Chains with Underutilized Crops”, involves 29 entities from 12 countries – Germany, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Slovenia, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Countries Netherlands, United Kingdom – and has the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as a partner. The initiative has 20 pilot farms, designated as “Aurora farms”, “which cover different agro-ecologies across Europe and where good practices will be tested and ...