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DISCUSSION No. 133   •   FSN Forum digest No. 1269

Pulses: innovations from the field to the cooking pot

until 4 November 2016

 

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Dear Members,

Please find below an update on our discussion
Pulses: innovations from the field to the cooking pot.

You will find below the link to the recording of the webinar held on 20 October, a follow up by Sieg Snapp, the co-facilitator of this exchange and a contribution presenting FAO's TECA platform.

This discussion aims at shedding light on innovations and policies needed in order to further improve the role that pulses can have for nutrition, food security and sustainable agriculture.

·         What can be done concretely to increase to consumption of pulses?

·         How can we make pulses an attractive option for farmers?

·         What is needed to strengthen pulses value chains?

·         What successful policies do we know about?

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Webinar - Pulses: innovations from the field to the cooking pot

Last week we hosted a webinar showcasting innovative prractices that could help increase the role of pulses both from a producer and a consumer point of view.

The presentations where made by our two facilitors, Sieg Snapp and Karen Cichy and were followed by a question and answer session which allowed participants to engage in a brief round of discussion.

Anna Antwi

View the recording of the webinar

 

Sieg Snapp, co- facilitatator of the discussion

Dear all,

Thank you very much for the comments shared so far and thank you also to all of those who participated in last week’s webinar.

I would like to take this opportunity to tackle some of the questions that were left unanswered.

Anna Antwi

On the question posed by Holly Tripp regarding the gender implications along the pulses value chain, I think that this touches on many different dimensions. Women are often responsible for growing legume crops. Sometimes if a pulse becomes a cash crop men become more involved, but generally, pulses are planted and tended by women, and processed and stored by women. Therefore, women are also usually most interested in information about how to grow pulses, and how to process them.

Unfortunately, on the questions by Jaime Pizarro and Tim Gill on where farmers could best acquire seeds for growing pulses and on who is doing research on pest-resistance, I have no exact answers. Maybe someone in the audience knows more on this and would like to share it with the rest of us? For the time being I’d like to share with you the link to a very good pest management technology resource for cowpea, http://www.iita.org/tamo-manuel

I look forward to your ideas on how to make pulses more appealing to the consumer and the producers.

Best regards

Sieg

 

CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED

iconHanna Weber, FAO, Italy

Hanna presents the FAO TECA platform which provides practical information about innovative and traditional practices to small holder famers and includes several technologies and practices related to the use of pulses and legumes. She also invites all organizations that generate knowledge or work with farmers to contact the TECA team to share and promote proven practices.

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