Spanish Legume Network (RELEG)

The Network was created to respond to the growing global demand for plant-based foods, environmental concerns, and food security.

The Network's primary objective is to optimize the agronomic, economic, and nutritional services that legume crops provide to society, thereby promoting their implementation. The specific objectives are:

• Coordinate and integrate existing research on legumes in diverse disciplines such as genetics, genomics, breeding, agronomy, ecology, and nutritional quality.
• Contribute to the advancement of legume-based agricultural practices to increase productivity and environmental sustainability.
• Promote a synthetic approach that integrates knowledge and experience from various fields.
• Improve the sustainability of agriculture and strengthen the security of food and feed supplies.
• Promote scientific exchange and collaboration between researchers from different areas through coordinated working groups.
• Reducing protein deficiency by focusing on legume research and innovation.
• Improve understanding of the traits that determine adaptation, productivity, stress resistance, and quality of legume crops.
• Research the composition and nutritional quality of legumes and promote food innovation in the sector.