BEANS

ongoing project about beans and legumes  -  important future food

Beans and legumes will become an even more important crop for food solutions with the climate shifting.

Why are beans are an important future food ? They don't need many nutrients because legumes are nitrogen fixing. 

Beans are important for soil health and support growth of other plants — they are good for the environment. 

Beans and legumes are rich in plant protein, fiber, B-vitamins, iron, folate, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and zinc. Most beans are also low in fat. Legumes are similar to meat in nutrients, but with lower iron levels and no saturated fats.

In the projects CIBUS future foods, SEGES foods that thrive after extreme weather and BEANS Vivienne depicts a possible climate future.

To correctly convey these issues Vivienne receives information and advice for this project directly from a professor specialised in international legumes breeding programmes to support future food security and a senior research leader of Kew Gardens’ Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst.