Pioneering crops for future generations

Monday, January 18, 2016 - 09:15 in Mathematics & Economics

By 2050, the global population is expected to increase to 9.6 billion people. The world will need more nutritious, affordable, and environmentally sustainable food—exactly what the EU funded project PROTEIN2FOOD has committed to. Led by the University of Copenhagen, a team of 19 partner institutions from 13 countries, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) among them, will create innovative, high quality, protein-rich food crops, to sustain human health, the environment, and biodiversity.

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