Crops For the Future Research Centre

Crops For the Future Research Centre (CFFRC) is the world’s first centre dedicated to research on underutilised crops for food and non-food uses. It research encompasses annual and perennial crops with potential as staple foods, vegetables, fruits, forages, bioenergy and constructional materials.

Our research focusses on the uses of underutilised crops and agricultural biodiversity to diversify crop and agricultural systems, address changing climates, improve food security and economic well-being and improve nutrition.

CFFRC operates as the research arm of the global Crops For the Future (CFF) organisation. As such, it provide evidence-based research to support CFF’s wider mandate to promote and facilitate the greater use of neglected and underutilised species for enhanced diversification of agricultural systems and human diets, particularly for the benefit of poor people in developing countries.