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2016 is the International Year of Pulses (IYP). The pulses have an important role in food and nutrition security; however, an important dimension that is always missed is the role of pulses and their by-products (husk, small pulse grain particles obtained during processing for human consumption and crop residues) as...

Agriculture began more than 10 000 years ago when gatherers and hunters turned into farmers; since then, pulses have been part of the human diet. Lentils (Lens culinaris Medik.), chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.), peas (Pisum sativum L.) and bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia [L.] Willd.) are Neolithic founder crops, as they...

Este cómic, que marca el Año Internacional de las Legumbres (AIL) 2016, enseña a los niños que las legumbres son un poderoso aliado en la lucha por alcanzar la seguridad alimentaria. Son económicamente asequibles, se pueden cultivar en entornos secos, y tienen un bajo impacto en la huella del despilfarro...

Worldwide, the consumption of pulses has seen a slow but steady decline. One the one hand, the availability of other products has led people to abandon their traditional diets, and rising incomes have led to shifts towards food derived from livestock. Encouraging pulse consumption requires a multisector approach that should...

This document summarizes the online discussion Pulses: innovations from the field to the cooking pot which was held on the FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) from 14 October to 4 November 2016.