Project: Quinoa as a climate-smart crop diversification option for higher income generation from marginal lands in the Mediterranean (06/2022 - 05/2025)

1. University of Kasdi Merbah Ouargla (UKMO), Department of Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Bio-resources in the Sahara, Algeria
2. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Centre for Plant Bio-technology and Genomics (CBGP), Spain
3. ALGODONERA DEL SUR SA (AS), Spain
4. Moreno Ruiz Hermanos S L (MRH), Aurora Intelligent Nutrition, Spain
5. Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), UMR SENS, France
6. Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire, Hassan II, Dept. of Production, Protection and Plant Biotechnology (IAV Hassan II), Morocco
7. Mohamed Premier University in Oujda (MPUO), Morocco
8. Centre of Biotechnology of Borj-Cédria (CBBC), Tunisia (Co-Coordinator)

 C = Coordinator: University of Hohenheim (UHOH), Germany

Quinoa4Med (Q4M) brings together scientific partners and societal stakeholders from five Mediterranean countries, as well as quinoa and breeding experts from Germany in order to upscale quinoa cultivation and valorisation in an integrated and systemic approach. Noteworthy for food and income security of Mediterranean smallholders, Q4M will introduce novel and climate resilient quinoa breeding lines to diversify current cropping systems with the goal of stabilizing overall harvests, recovering and/or enriching soils and in general improving year-round crop production.