What role do legumes play in the emerging food security crisis? This question will be discussed together with several experts in the upcoming meeting of the Global Bean Network on May 19.Will the world see an even bigger hunger crisis than in 2008? Experts agree that...
This webinar from Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) brings together some recent outcomes of research in Scotland on legume agronomy and its (feeding) value for livestock. About this event Chair: Ross Mackenzie (SAC Consultancy) Agenda 10.30 – 10.40:...
On March 29 and 30, 2022, the online workshop of the Deutsche Agrarforschungsallianz (DAFA) will take place: Double legume acreage by 2030! The two-day workshop will address questions such as: Which "new" legume species can be used in mixed cropping? Which utilisation...
On March 8 an online-workshop on the satellite-based yield prediction system for soybean, which evolved from a collaboration of the BioSense Institute and Donau Soja within the Horizon2020 project Cybele, will be held from 12-1:30pm CET. In the workshop it will be...
On March 2 the Global Bean network invites to join the trans-european online seed festival that will concentrate on how to save and cultivate legume seed: beans, lentils, peas, chickpeas, faba and all their diversity. From 5 to 8 pm there will be a lot of storytelling...
At the occasion of world pulses day 2022, the global bean project will be exploring bean diversity. On Thursday, February 10, 17:00-18:00 CET, Patrick Kaiser from the swabian Genbänkle, Germany, will lead us through history, diversity, numbers and the beauty of...
On January 27, the public kick-off meeting of The Global Bean Network takes place. Participants will get to know the project’s partners across Europe and beyond. Further the components and events of the project will be introduced – starting with a European legumes...
The Crop Science Group of ETH Zurich seeks for a postdoctoral researcher to contribute to projects in phenotyping of soybean, peas and/or pulses. The three-year postdoc will develop approaches for “phenomic selection”, explore options to include legume crops into...
Registration is open for the hybrid (on site and online) conference on 3 November 2021, organised by the Commission for Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies (KIOES) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). The conference discusses how soy emerged from a regional...
From June 16th to 18 th 2021, a delegation of the Donau Soja Moldova network visited the Experimental Soybean Station in Pavlikeni, Bulgaria. The purpose of the visit was to observe how Moldovan soybean varieties grow under the climatic conditions present at the...
The three day virtual conference ‘Advances in Legume Science and Practice 2‘, organised by the Association of Applied Biologists ‘Cropping And The Environment (CATE)’ specialist group, will take place 1 - 3 September 2021. Legume Science and Practice Conference The...
