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Can legumes save the world?

The Global Bean Project brings together more than 80 partner organisations from across Europe, Africa, India and the US who share knowledge about legume cultivation and consumption. Take a look at our show gardens, seed exchanges, monthly events, cultivation instructions and information sheets, and learn more about how legumes can save the world.

Upcoming Events

  • 6 Jun 2023

    Cooking with Pulses

    Discover the secrets of cooking with pulses through our upcoming online cooking event! Learn tips and tricks from professional chef Ben Perry and discover how to make two delicious dishes that are both good for you and good for the planet. Maultaschen (Swabian ravioli) is a dish that is said to have been first created …

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  • 11 Jul 2023

    Live in the Legume Show Gardens!

    If you are curious about the diversity of legumes, join us for a garden tour through Europe and maybe beyond. The Global Bean Show Gardens constitute a very diverse network of demonstration gardens, production farms, breeding stations and experimental farms. Their participants are growing all sorts of legumes, for example, children in Germany are growing …

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Monthly meetings

Monthly sessions about everything legume-related, Intercropping, legume mixtures, seed exchanges and more.

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Showgardens

Short videos about legume cultivation from all around the world!

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Behind the Seeds

Discover the stories of bean lovers around the world that the Global Bean team met at Terra Madre, the Slow Food’s international convention in Turin!

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Articles

  • Behind the Seeds – Red and Black Beans, with Omar Rodriguez (Honduras)

    Behind the Seeds – Red and Black Beans, with Omar Rodriguez (Honduras)

    For our 10th episode of “Behind the Seeds,” we spoke with Omar Rodriguez at Terra Madre, last year’s Slow Food Congress in Turin. He is from Honduras and works as a coffee producer. Besides coffee, he is also passionate about beans! As he explained, in Honduras corn and beans are staple foods with black and red beans being the most commonly used varieties.

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  • Statement by Xavier Hamon from the Alliance of Free & Living Tables

    Statement by Xavier Hamon from the Alliance of Free & Living Tables

    As part of our 2023 seed festival, we were lucky enough to be joined by French chef Xavier Hamon of the Alliance of Free & Living Tables (formerly the Alliance des Cuisiniers). Originally included as part of the festival’s online programme, in the address below, he discusses the politics of gastronomy in France and proposes

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  • Global Bean Project Seed Festival 2023: Highlights From the Online Programme

    Global Bean Project Seed Festival 2023: Highlights From the Online Programme

    “The only real food we can eat is food from farms.” That was the message from Vandana Shiva as she addressed the crowd at Berlin’s Weltacker 2000m², a plot in the Pankow district that aims to highlight the means needed to feed the world’s population. For decades, Shiva has been advocating for biodiversity, the rights

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Publications

  • Information sheet

    Cultivating Legumes on Balconies

    Increased urbanisation has left less space for growing our vegetables on farms unlike in our rural areas. So space is one of the biggest constraints for farming. But to eat a healthy diet you need to grow your food in your locality!

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  • Cultivation instruction

    Phaseolus Bean

    The wild parents of the common bean (P. vulgaris) grow in an area that stretches from northern Mexico to Argentina, in two broad regions: Mesoamerica in the north and the Andes in the south. Wild beans in the two regions are genetically distinct.

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