Virtual Conference
"EUROPEAN LEGUMES IN TRANSITION"
The objectives of LEGVALUE and TRUE projects were; to define platforms for change that can help deliver greater EU self-sufficiency in vegetable protein production; to identify opportunities for innovation, adding value to markets and all participants in the value chains and; to recognise opportunities to influence change, be they at commercial, research or at policy level. As the projects came to a conclusion they joined together in a series of webinars "European Legumes in Transition", which explored the value chain and launched the Legume Innovation Network. The LIN aims to ensure innovation across the entire Pulse and vegetable legume industry, growing into a wide interconnected web of contacts linking people with similar interests.
Each webinar started at 10am CET on the dates shown below.
Digging in to legumes and the potential of the Legume Innovation Network
Description
It will outline how the value chain functions from processing through to marketing.
End-user concerns will be highlighted from the perspective of feed and food, health, and environmental functions. It will outline how the subsequent webinars will address these issues.
Organisers
Terres Inovia
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The Legume Innovation Network
Optimising Legume Production
Description
A farm level examination of farmer attitudes, activities, and approaches.
Using studies of success stories to illustrate opportunities in crop management and variety availability to demonstrate ecosystem service benefits, environmental impact and the contribution to health, nutrition, and the economy.
Organisers
Roskilde Universitet
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Legume crop production
Legume-based value chains, farm gate and the market beyond
Description
Exploring how markets are organised, added value and their transparency.
Illustrating how success stories function in the value chain through processing to the commodity market.
Organisers
Fachhochschule Südwestfalen
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Legume markets and values
The diversity of end uses for legumes
Description
This webinar summarises initiatives that aim to enable the comeback of legumes and their placement in a diversity of end uses, allowing them to become more prominent in human diets and animal feeds.
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End uses for pulses / grain legumes
Pushing the boundaries in legume breeding
Description
This webinar aims to demonstrate the success of legume breeding, highlight the level of investment, the gaps, and opportunities for the market while exploring the barriers to greater success, and indicating where innovation can and is being successful in influencing feed and food value for the benefit of health, nutrition, and the environment.
Organisers
Processors and Growers Research Organisation
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Breeding of legume crops
How legume science is enabling industry
Description
Exploring the success of science in delivering knowledge and how the science is integral to the network standing ready to facilitate innovation in the value chain.
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Developments in legume science
The role of policy in the transition of legume production and consumption in Europe
Description
This webinar will introduce joint lessons from the TRUE-LEGVALUE policy-relevant studies and initiate a rethinking of how "policy understanding" can help to transform our food system to be more legume-based.
The potential impact and contribution of policy instruments in scenario-based transition pathways towards greater legume production and consumption will be discussed.
Organisers
Wageningen University
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Policy matters
Bringing the Legume Innovation Network together
Description
A synthesis of the key messages for growers and markets and end users throughout the value chain with a summary for policy makers and the roadmap of the Legume Innovation Network. (www.legumeinnovationnetwork.eu)
Organisers
Processors and Growers Research Organisation
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