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Growing sustainable agriculture through local legumes

To become more sustainable, Europe must diversify its agri-food systems. According to the TRUE project (Transition paths to sustainable legume-based systems in Europe), this starts with promoting the cultivation and consumption of home-grown legumes.

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The road map for legumes

Our webinar drew joint lessons from the TRUE-LegValue policy-relevant studies.

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Easy Peasy Legume Recipes for kids

Black-eyed bean salad with tuna, Scottish lentil soup or apple chickpea cake – just a couple of very easy recipes from our legume cookbook.

Legumes, or „pulses“, are a cheap and environmentally friendly alternative to animal protein, providing several micro- and macronutrients. However, while beans, lentils and Co. have always been enjoying great popularity in oriental and North African countries, the consumption in Europe does not comply with the nutritional recommendations. With this book, we aim to raise legumes’ popularity among children and their parents by showing how easily delicious legume dishes can be prepared.

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Food for the Future: Protein Transition

Can you imagine that Europe’s agro-biodiversity and legume production is starting to increase suddenly? The PROTEIN2FOOD project in five years wanted to promote this idea through social innovation in the value chain.

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A governance context which favour legume-supported value chains

Our latest deliverable presents the result from the application of a policy Delphi. It highlights how experts assess the potential of governance contexts that may favour the realisation of legume-supported value chains.

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Agroecology: From tradition to innovation

Join us in our two days symposium to get a feel of where agroecology is going in Hungary.

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Sustainable Food Systems < > Sustainable Diets

The Center for Food Studies at The American University of Rome organised an uplifting event on the changing food consumption practices, policies, research and investments conducive to fostering the desirable transformations of the food system and dietary practices.

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Bean there, done that: why we should eat more beans and legumes in general

The world needs more protein, but animal-based protein intake is by no means sustainable. Legumes are a good alternative to meat and thanks to their biological nitrogen fixation capacities, they also benefit the environment.

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Locked-in or transition towards agri-food system sustainability: focus on crop diversification

More than 200 participants arrived at the first European Conference on Crop Diversification to Budapest on 18th to the 21st of September 2019.

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