School teachers and managers, community leaders and local stakeholders came together in Cabo Verde in the last weeks of December to celebrate the International Year of Pulses (IYP) with several awareness raising events.

This awareness-raising campaign aimed at educating children and adolescents about the importance of healthy nutrition habits, including the regular consumption of local pulses.  It also discussed how pulses benefit the environment, for example supporting biodiversity, mitigating climate change, preserving water in agricultural practices, protecting soils, and providing byproducts for animal feed.