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Between December 2024 and February 2025, three workshops brought together key stakeholders from research, industry, agriculture, and policy to advance the role of legumes in European food systems. The first workshop in Portugal focused on integrating legumes into local farming, highlighting their economic, environmental, and nutritional benefits. Participants explored innovative approaches to enhance value chains […]

From March 25th to 27th, 2025, the legumES project held its annual General Assembly in the picturesque city of Perugia, Italy. The event gathered around 40 project partners from across Europe for three days of lively exchange, learning, and connection. The agenda was rich and diverse, featuring hands-on workshops, insightful updates on the Pilot Studies

On January 9, 2025, Terres Inovia hosted a vibrant Multi-Actor Workshop in Paris, gathering 20 participants from across the legume value chain—from farmers to processors, policymakers to researchers. The aim? To explore how legumes contribute to ecosystem services and how these benefits can be better recognised and rewarded. The day kicked off with insights from

Our participatory farmer call is now open. Become a legumES farmer – together, we will provide evidence for the ecosystem benefits of legume crops. We are seeking Participatory Farmers from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK to measure legume-related benefits following easy-to-use monitoring methods. While some ecosystem benefits can

On November 29, 2024, the legumES project took part in the “Protein Power” conference at Strickhof in Lindau, Switzerland, transforming a bustling event into a hands-on space for stakeholder engagement. With over 100 attendees from farming, research, the food industry, and the wider public, the workshop featured a dynamic market stand format where discussions sprouted

Research shows that incorporating legumes into farming systems as cash crops, intercrops, service crops or feed crops can provide a wide array of benefits. These benefits can include increased soil fertility, greater abundance of beneficial insects and wildlife, and carbon storage, which can translate into increases in farm productivity across the rotation and gross margins

On October 14, 2024, the German Institute of Food and Technology e.V. organized the first multi-actor workshop under work package 1 in Quakenbrück, Germany, engaging around 30 participants from research, industry, start-ups, and academia. The workshop focused on the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities (SWOT) of valorising the ecosystem services and benefits associated with legumes