Get to know the partners in our network, find out more about their work, and learn about their relationship with legumes.
Please introduce yourself and tell us about how your work relates to legumes. How did you first fall in love with legumes? My name is Lena, I’m from Switzerland, and although I come from a completely different field (law!), I started giving baking and cooking classes for legumes a few years ago because I am
What is your name? Can you briefly explain what your organisation does and your role? My name is Lucas Mourão and I’m the coordinator of Slow Food’s local community in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. We are involved in the promotion of local socio-biodiversity, especially of Cerrado* fruits, through events and educational workshops. *The Cerrado is a
My name is Mara Welton, I am the Director of Programs for Slow Food USA, and my job is to oversee all of the programming across the nation. We are a national office under the whole Slow Food International umbrella.
I have been running an organic farm for many decades. For a long time we grew vegetables, including peas, beans and soybeans, for direct sale. We gave up direct sales in 2018 in favour of the World Farming Project. Since then, the Weltacker Attiswil has been a guest on our farm.
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.
My name is Amanuel Samuel. I work in a civil society organization, Gardulla Peoples Development Association (GPDA) based in SNNPR, Ethiopia.
My name is Rūta Beirote and I represent, together with my sister Santa, the farm and family of the Zutini house. Together with our parents and children we run a small farm, where we grow cereals, tomatoes and also legumes – beans and peas.
I’m Nicolas Carton, a french agroecologist and self-proclaimed pulse ambassador. I started the initiative ‘Lumineuses’ during the Covid pandemics to promote pulse crops in the fields and in the kitchens.
The Global Bean team was lucky to receive the KBean project form South Korea, in Berlin for a 3-day visit.
What is your name? What are the main projects or organisations you are currently involved in? Can you briefly present their activity and your function? My name is Claudia Friedrich, and my company is called heldenküche. At heldenküche we love good food and cooking. heldenküche is present in Leipzig, Stockholm and on your web-device. Our cooking
My name is Nikos Dompazis and I grow traditional varieties of legumes and vegetables since 1996, in a garden of approx. 700 m2 in Northern Greece (Komotini).
I am coordinating the « LebensMittelPunkt Wehrda » project for my district – Wehrda, which is a district of Marburg – aiming to set up a local community, by connecting people who are interested in sustainable nutrition, in order to…