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Behind the Seeds: Promoting Biodiversity through Education with Lucas Mourão (Brazil)

2023-02-19 by Grégoire Duffal

As part of the 8th ‘Behind the Seeds’ interviews at Terra Madre, Slow Food’s convention in Turin last September, we interviewed Lucas Mourão from Belo Horizonte in Brazil. Lucas is the coordinator of Slow Food local community in his city, and works for Jaca Verde PANC, where he gives courses, guided tours, landscaping and consultancy on non-conventional food plants. Lucas is always looking for people that work with biodiversity!

2023-02-15 by Anne Moïta

2022 was a year with a strong focus on legumes for the Global Field Attiswil in Switzerland, and it shows! We can only applaud the team for their creativity in bringing this information to visitors of their Global Field.

2023-02-12 by Grégoire Duffal

As part of the 7th ‘Behind the Seeds’ interview at Terra Madre, Slow Food’s convention in Turin last September, we interviewed Simone Nabil, who is originally from Egypt but lives in France. In Egypt, Simone explains that they eat a lot of beans, and that they are an important part of the country’s traditional food.

2023-02-06 by Grégoire Duffal

On 21 January, the 8th annual Soup&Talk organized by 2000m2 Weltacker took place at the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The aim of this event was to warm up with hot soup and exchange ideas on existing approaches for the transformation of sustainable agriculture. Lisa Hoffmann, the project coordinator, presented the project at the event. Can beans

2025-05-052023-02-04 by Global Bean

Setsubun literally means the “separation of the seasons” and is a Japanese festival that bids farewell to winter and celebrates the beginning of spring. It traditionally takes place on 3 February and marks the turn of the seasons according to the old lunar calendar in Japan.

2023-01-25 by Grégoire Duffal

In this 6th “Behind the seeds” interview in “Terra Madre”, the international Slow Food convention in Torino, we interviewed Ramon Uy Junior, originally from the Negros Islands in the Philippines. Ramon works with five SlowFood communities in the central Philippines, as well as with about 1.000 organic farmers in his province.

2025-05-052023-01-13 by Zutini

Big Grey peas with bacon are a “must have” on Latvians Christmas table. When you ask a Latvian “What is the national dish of your country?”, Big grey peas with bacon is usually the first thing that comes up. Peas with bacon are both the food with which we identify ourselves as a nation, and

2023-01-12 by Grégoire Duffal

In this 5th “Behind the seeds” interview in “Terra Madre”, the international Slow Food convention in Torino, we interviewed Paul Maschka, from San Diego California. He is an organic farmer who farms part-time and teaches organic farming the rest of the time to help people start growing and sometimes even change their careers!

2023-01-03 by Anne Moïta

I am currently working as a consultant with the Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT in six countries on a project on dynamic mixtures and evolutionary population.

2022-12-31 by Grégoire Duffal

Do you know why Italians eat lentils on New Year’s Eve? Have you heard of the Colline Ennesi Black Lentil? Discover lentils from a whole new angle in this article describing the traditions of lentil dishes and how to cook them with a special recipe of Orange lentil salad with fennel from Cecilia Antoni (Bean Beat)!

2022-12-29 by Grégoire Duffal

In this fourth “Behind the seeds” interview in the international Slow Food convention in Torino “Terra Madre”, Amanuel Samuel, from Ethiopia, introduces us to Ethiopian regional beans, such as big white beans, his favourite legume, a climbing bean that grows on a structure installed by the farmer, but also his favourite dish: Kurkufa (fagioli and corn powder).

2025-05-052022-12-28 by ARCHE NOAH

Author: Yana Stiewe (Global Plot Berlin) Based on the research on Winter legume crops of Magdalena Aigner (Arche Noah) Taking a walk during wintertime shows us that the world is asleep. Grey skies, leafless trees and bare soil, nothing covering the ground. The latter is actually nothing nature intends to do but rather anthropogenic interference.

Behind the Seeds: Promoting Biodiversity through Education with Lucas Mourão (Brazil)

Education on Legumes on the Global Field Attiswil, Switzerland

Behind the Seeds: Fava Bean Customs in Egypt with Simone Nabil (Egypt)

Looking back on the Soup&Talk event

Celebrate Setsubun! – Welcome the spring with roasted soybeans

Behind the Seeds: Kadios Pigeon Pea and Local Food System with Ramon Uy Junior (Philippines)

Big grey peas in Latvian national Christmas dish

Behind the Seeds: The Lima and the Chinese Bean with Paul Maschka (U.S.)

Meet the Global Bean Partners: Salvatore Ceccarelli

Lentil Mania & a happy new year!

Behind the Seeds: Regional Beans and Bean Dishes with Amanuel Samuel (Ethiopia)

Win-Winter Grain Legumes