On the occasion of World Food Day, marked on October 16th, the European project RADIANT - led by the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (in Porto) - raised awareness among the population and government entities for the production and consumption of traditional food varieties, taking into account its nutritional value, as well as concerns about the current overpopulation worldwide and possible worsening of food shortages.

According to data from the UN 2022 report, the number of people affected by hunger worldwide rose to 828 million in 2021, due to factors such as climate change and the food crisis – these having been amplified by the pandemic and war in Ukraine.

It is in this sense that the RADIANT project intends to “contribute to the inversion of this reality through the promotion of undervalued foods”.

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