The INCREASE project has successfully concluded.

While the Citizen Science Experiment continues during growing season 2026, learn more about the impact of INCREASE and view our results here.

Stay tuned for more results to come. We will continue to update the results section and inform you via social media when new results are published.

INCREASE Results

After six years of dedicated collaboration, the INCREASE project has delivered a remarkable wealth of results. Discover the project’s outcomes spanning crop research, citizen science, data resources and stakeholder engagement.

Crops

Key findings on common bean, lupin, chickpea and lentil genetic resources, supporting conservation, research and future crop resilience.

Citizen Science Experiment

A large-scale citizen science initiative linking public participation, scientific research and decentralised conservation of bean diversity.

Intelligent collections

A practical model for linking conservation with use, combining genetic diversity, field testing and genomic knowledge.

Web portal

A central platform for exploring and reusing passport, phenotypic and genotypic data on food legume genetic resources.

Stakeholder Consortium

How stakeholder collaboration strengthened dissemination, exploitation and the long-term sustainability of INCREASE results.

Voices of INCREASE

Let’s hear from some of the people who helped turn INCREASE into a powerful example of collaborative agrobiodiversity protection.