International Year of Pulses Booklet

Meet Pulses: The Next Big Superfood Category

What are Pulses? In technical terms, they’re the dry, edible seeds of plants in the legume family. In understandable terms, they’re a category of superfoods that includes chickpeas, lentils, dry peas, and bean varieties. They’re also incredibly healthy, affordable, sustainable and tasty.

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Unlock the Secrets in the Soil

Believe it or not, there are a lot of interesting facts about healthy soil. These informative graphics provide a glimpse of just some of those secrets.

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Soils and Biodiversity

Soils host a quarter of our planet’s biodiversity.

Soil is one of nature’s most complex ecosystems: it contains a myriad of organisms which interact and contribute to the global cycles that make all life possible.

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Our Soils Under Threat

Soils are under increasing pressure of intensification and competing uses for cropping, forestry, pasture and urbanization.  The demands of a growing population for food, feed and fibre are estimated to result in a 60 percent increase by 2050.  These pressures combined with unsustainable land uses and management practices, as well as climate extremes, cause land degradation. Soil preservation and sustainable land management have therefore become essential for reversing the trend of soil degradation and ensuring food security and a sustainable future.

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Together We Can Cool the Planet

“Together We Can Cool the Planet” highlights the role of industrial agriculture in climate change while expounding on how small farmers are combating the climate crisis through regenerative organic agriculture.

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Soils Help to Combat and Adapt to Climate Change

Healthy soils provide the largest store of terrestrial carbon. When managed sustainably, soils can play an important role in climate change mitigation by storing carbon (carbon sequestration) and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
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Agroecology Will Feed the World

EVIDENCE IS MOUNTING: A widespread global shift in farming away from industrial production models toward agroecology is key to increasing food production and mitigating the effects of climate change.

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