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2016 is the International Year of Pulses (IYP). The pulses have an important role in food and nutrition security; however, an important dimension that is always missed is the role of pulses and their by-products (husk, small pulse grain particles obtained during processing for human consumption and crop residues) as...

Agriculture began more than 10 000 years ago when gatherers and hunters turned into farmers; since then, pulses have been part of the human diet. Lentils (Lens culinaris Medik.), chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.), peas (Pisum sativum L.) and bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia [L.] Willd.) are Neolithic founder crops, as they...

此份连环画是2016国际豆类年（IYP）为向孩子们传达豆类是实现粮食安全的重要盟友的信息而制作而成的。豆类是经济上可负担得起的，它们还可以在干燥环境中生长，并且具有较低的食物浪费足迹，因为它们可以长期储存而不会变质。该连环画是《粮农小超人》系列中的一部分。粮农小超人是五个超级英雄，其们的使命是消除饥饿和营养不良、消除贫困、确保可持续利用自然资源使世界变得更美好。

Worldwide, the consumption of pulses has seen a slow but steady decline. One the one hand, the availability of other products has led people to abandon their traditional diets, and rising incomes have led to shifts towards food derived from livestock. Encouraging pulse consumption requires a multisector approach that should...

This document summarizes the online discussion Pulses: innovations from the field to the cooking pot which was held on the FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) from 14 October to 4 November 2016.