VALERECO’s main ambition is to develop a biodiversity-anchored EU-wide legume ecosystem promoting the valorisation of legume ecosystem services of legume crops. 

To achieve this, VALERECO is planning a set of actions:

• Increase knowledge on the benefits of legume crops, their role in biodiversity conservation, soil health, and nutrient cycling, and to explore synergies with other crops.
• Evaluate the market competitiveness of legume crops and promote the inclusion of legumes in cropping schemes for human consumption, while highlighting the ES provided by legumes and their adoption by farmers and multiple actors across the agri-food value chain.
• Demonstrate technologically feasible solutions of legumes-based diversified farming systems & indicators for quantification of agronomic, economic, and environmental benefits of N transfer from major and minor legumes to other crops enhancing digital technologies
• Generate capacity building material to disseminate results and encourage uptake of legume ecosystem services, supporting the sustainability of the project outcomes beyond its duration.