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ssss1 Nutritious pulses for sustainable future – key messages.

Source: IYP (2016)

ssss1 Countries with USAID’s Pulse CRSP supported projects.

Source: USAID (2012).

The Legume Systems Innovation Lab focuses on collaborative projects associated with two primary crops, common bean, and cowpea. These crops provide exceptional levels of nutrient dense staple foods. Further, it is fully recognized that legumes are especially important for women in many regions of the world, as they are often the producers, traders, and consumers of the crop. Collaborating international legume scientists and partner institutions enhance the global mission of improving livelihoods and nutritional impacts throughout legume value chains. Support of graduate student research training is critical to improving the research capacity of scientists in developing countries and is an important goal of this program (FTF 2021).

Dry beans are an important component of US foreign food aid programs. The USAID list the following beans and pulses as eligible for food aid programs in selected developing countries: black, blackeye, great northern, kidney (dark and light), navy, pink, pinto, small red, garbanzo, (chickpeas), lentils, and peas (USAID 2018). The targeted use of food aid programs and assistance with procurement and distribution of dry beans and/or partially prepared ingredients (flours, powders, meals, or extrudates) or fully prepared products (canned, precooked‐dehydrated, and extruded) will directly expand use in the most urgently needed populations. Utilization of prepared dry edible beans has consistently been advocated by both governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGO). These nutrition programs are particularly important to infants and children. Dry edible beans are also frequently considered for applications in regions experiencing sustained crop failure (Siddiq and Uebersax 2012).