The environmental and health benefits of leguminous crops are increasingly coming to the forefront of agriculture and food production. Although the potential benefits, or the ecosystem services of pulses are well known, in so far as they contribute greatly to addressing the major challenges of our time: climate change, biodiversity loss and food security, demonstrating and monitoring these benefits remains a challenge. The LegumES project aims to collect, integrate and test the scientific and practical knowledge in order to optimise legume-based production systems and maximise the ecosystem services (ES) provided by these plants. We aim to come up with common definitions of legume-related ESs, assign indicators to them and develop monitoring methods to be able to follow the benefits unfolding. The four-year project will start in January 2024 with 22 partners from 11 countries. Agri Kulti's main task will be to further develop and adapt our sustainability assessment system, AgriTookit, to provide a more accurate and clear picture of the environmental, economic and social benefits of pulse production, but we will also continue to cooperate with our partners in pulse-related cultivation experiments and strengthen producer-consumer links.

Project website: https://legumesproject.eu/