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World Pulses Day: Home-growing plant protein is good sense

World Pulses Day: Home-growing plant protein is good sense

10 Feb 2021

Beans (Vijaya Narasimha/Pixabay)
"There are strong ethical and environmental drivers to source our plant protein from home-grown pulses, but there is much to learn and do"
Beans (Vijaya Narasimha/Pixabay)

By Pete Iannetta and Alison Karley, Ecological Sciences, James Hutton Institute

The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched the UK’s systems of food supply, raising further questions about the adaptability of global food systems in a crisis - in addition to those persistent issues of environmental degradation, biodiversity losses, and the numbers of citizens suffering food and nutrition scarcity.

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Pietro (Pete) Iannetta
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Bernardo Rodriguez-Salcedo, Media Manager, James Hutton Institute, Tel: +44 (0)1224 395089 (direct line), +44 (0)344 928 5428 (switchboard) or +44 (0)7791 193918 (mobile).

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute