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31. août 2022

Heat wave impacts legume yields in India

Author: Edible Routes India Regions particularly suffering from heat This year’s heat wave was the most severe as it started early and extended for a longer period of time. The weather experts attribute the high temperature across the country due to the absence of light rainfall …

31. août 2022

by Global Bean

Cecilia from the Global Bean team at Slow Beans

Author: Cecilia Antoni The meeting with local and international legume farmers was held for the second time, this year in Polizzi Generosa in Sicily from August 19-21, 2022. Due to the drought, many producers weren’t able to harvest this year. Some of them were still able …

31. août 2022

by Global Bean

Global Bean partners: Nikos Dompazis

My name is Nikos Dompazis and I grow traditional varieties of legumes and vegetables since 1996, in a garden of 700 m2 in Northern Greece. I am a founding member of the local seed savers network in my area, Sporites Rodopis.

31. août 2022

by Global Bean

Drought equals lower legume yields in Germany?

There is no denying that 2022 has been a particularly dry year.
However, for most field crops like pulses, it can be positive to have “dry weather” at the end of the crop cycle for example. Did legume yields suffer from the drought? What parameters are the ones impacting legumes? What are the means to adapt legume cultivation to the drought in Europe?

31. août 2022

by Global Bean

A CASE OF COWPEAS IN BARINGO COUNTY, KENYA.

Many regions of Kenya can be categorized into arid and semi-arid lands that receive unsustainable rainfall of between 250mm-500mm. Millions of smallholder farmers in the arid and semiarid lands of Kenya prefer cultivating legumes over other cash crops – crops grown mainly for sale – due to…

25. août 2022

by Global Bean

The grain legume market in Europe

Bruno Kezeya; Cecilia Antoni; Marcus Mergenthaler Production and uses Grain legumes have several agronomic, environmental and dietary benefits. Surprisingly, they play only a minor role in today’s farming systems as well in human nutrition in the EU. In fact, dry grain legumes represent only 2.1 % …

24. août 2022

by Global Bean

Summer cooking with lentils!

On July 14th, though it was already hot in most of our regions, Claudia from heldenküche fired up our kitchens! She brought in her good mood and energy right from the moment she welcomed the participants, from all over the world – Germany, South Korea, the …

28. juillet 2022

by Global Bean

A call to gardeners: What bugs, pests and diseases are affecting the legumes in our gardens?

Send us a picture of your problem, a brief description of the plant and its growing conditions (name of the legume variety, whether it grows in a pot, the type of soil, sun exposure, watering frequency…) or anything else you might think is relevant, and we will analyse them for you!

27. juillet 2022

by Global Bean

Edamame: pathway towards increased soybean consumption in Europe

Edamame is relatively new in Europe, though it has been known in Japanese, Chinese and other East Asian cultures for centuries if not millenia. suitable for gardening? How does one consume it?

26. juillet 2022

by Global Bean

Meet the Global Bean Partners: Tanja Neuschild

My name is Tanja Neuschild. I am am coordinating the “LebensMittelPunkt Wehrda” or “Food point Wehrda” project, aiming to set up a local community, by connecting people who are interested in sustainable nutrition, in order to work together to reach food sovereignty until 2030.

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