SEGES

is an ongoing project about food plants that are thriving after extreme weather such as droughts, fires and flooding

With the advance of climate change, unprecedented weather patterns and extreme events such as droughts, fires and flooding are becoming more frequent.

Finding staple foods plants that can survive or thrive in these circumstances are essential to the world’s long-term food and plant security. 

As only three plant crops  – maize, rice and wheat  –  are the staple foods of more than four billion people, finding other foods is important.

Beans and legumes will become an even more important crop for food solutions with the climate shifting.To learn more visit the ongoing project BEANS.

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.