News about our activities and stories from our network.
Usually, one takes pictures of the prettiest flowers, the tastiest-looking beans. But this time, we are collecting pictures of your yellow, spotted, eaten leaves, discolored seeds and pods…
Maybe you have heard of Edamame, these soybeans that are harvested before they arrive to maturity, with a mild and buttery flavour once boiled or roasted. What are the challenges and opportunities of edamame cultivation in Europe? Is it suitable for gardening? How does one consume it?
I am coordinating the « LebensMittelPunkt Wehrda » project for my district – Wehrda, which is a district of Marburg – aiming to set up a local community, by connecting people who are interested in sustainable nutrition, in order to…
At this year’s Re:publica, Carla Ulrich and Sofia Elisabeth Berlinghof from Tiny Farms, and Ekkehard Spiegel (Global Bean) held a workshop on how “The solution for the food of the future lies in legumes”.
In the last weeks, the Global Bean team has been busy gathering, preparing and sending out the winner packages. How lucky we are to receive and pass on such fabulous bean diversity!
My name is Hubert Würsch and I live in central Switzerland. I consider the benefit of legumes through nitrogen fixation to be an enormously important factor in agriculture.
Romain Elleboudt, of the Global Beans Project told Seeds4all more about the ambitions and structure of the network, as well as its positions regarding recent European declarations.
Suddenly, everyone is interested in the crops we grow and import in Europe. The war in Ukraine has really focused our minds on feeding people – or is that feeding animals? Legumes & protein crops production in the EU Agriculture in Europe is highly dependent on…
I am an independent agricultural scientist with a particular interest in how agri-food systems produce and use protein. At the moment, I am the scientific coordinator of the EU-funded Legumes Translated consortium.
My Name is Lopamudra Sahu, I look at our clients farms in Odisha and West Bengal. At Edible Routes we foresee a world where our food is grown locally, near us & by people known to us.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is further disrupting a global food system already undermined by Covid and the unfolding climate crisis. I went looking for guidance that would suggest demand-side, climate-proofed action in response.
As we watch the war in Ukraine in disbelief, the next global catastrophe is looming. Exploding energy and commodity prices meet reduced production of wheat, corn and oil crops; and on top of that agricultural functionaries are demanding a rollback of environmental measures.