We invite you to register to celebrate INTERNATIONAL LEGUMES DAY together, savouring and exploring ‘The taste of Pulses’.
On the occasion of International Legumes Day, Monday 10 February and the two days immediately preceding, 8 and 9 February 2025, we invite you to share with us and on social media how you will celebrate this important world event, telling us why it is important to you to value and celebrate legumes and their extraordinary diversity.
All citizens, associations, schools, local authorities, restaurateurs are invited to share how they will contribute to celebrating International Legume Day and to participate in our contest! All proposals, initiatives and ideas to celebrate legumes will be published on our website and shared on INCREASE’s social networks.
How to participate:
IF YOU ARE A PRIVATE CITIZEN
If you will be having one or more meals based on legumes from 8 to 10 February with family and friends, you can describe in detail (when, with how many people and which dishes based on legumes will be eaten, etc.) your celebration of legumes, describing the recipes and perhaps, if known, the varieties of legumes used, their origin and their characteristics.
If you go to a restaurant you can indicate which dishes you will consume, describing their characteristics and giving your evaluation.
You can also indicate the dishes consumed and the recipes by sharing pictures and posts on social networks. Favourite recipes and varieties of legumes can be indicated even if they are different from those consumed.
IF YOU ARE THE MANAGER OF AN ESTABLISHMENT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
(restaurants, bars…)
If you are proposing a menu with legumes for the days of 8 to 10 February, let us know where your venue is located and send us information on the menus with the proposed legumes. For venues, you will need to provide your full address and telephone and e-mail contact details (website if applicable), which we will publish on the dedicated web page, to enable booking by interested citizens. Recipes and varieties of legumes used can be described through text, images and videos and shared through the website and social media.
IF YOU REPRESENT A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ENTITY
(associations, canteens, schools, or entities organising an event for International Legume Day)
you can share events and initiatives, possibly providing information on how to participate in events open to the public. Recipes and varieties of legumes used can be described through text, images and videos and shared through the website and social media.
FOR EVERYONE: HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONTEST
‘THE TASTE OF PULSES”
By clicking on the SIGN UP button, you can register your accession to the celebration; when registering, you can also decide to make your private initiative visible on our site or open to all. On the MEMBERSHIP AND PROPOSALS page you can see all international participants and all available events, including your own!
You can also send us a post with a photo, description and recipe of your preparation to the SHARE A RECIPE section.
All posts will also be shared on our social pages and we will award the most popular entries based on social reactions and the most interesting ones based on the judgement of one of our expert panels. You can already start being inspired by other participants’ recipes now by browsing through the DISCOVER THE RECIPES section.
Participate in the competition by telling us why it is important to you to promote pulses and their diversity made up of many local varieties, how their diversity can be preserved and enhanced, and how to promote their consumption and cultivation.
Legumes, grown on our territory in numerous species and varieties, are a very important basis for a balanced and healthy diet. They are a great source of vegetable proteins and micronutrients with a low environmental impact. Beans in particular, because of their water efficiency and due to their nitrogen-fixing capacity in the soil, are particularly advantageous in the cultivation phase, as they are an excellent ally in regenerating and maintaining a healthy soil. Let us not forget that fertile soil is the indispensable ingredient for the production of the food that feeds us.
That’s why the slogan chosen by FAO for this year is:
#Pulses: bringing diversity to agrifood systems
#Love pulses for a healthy diet and planet
Pulses are an integral part of the traditional diet; beans, chickpeas, lentils, fava beans, peas, lupins and chickling peas are present in the traditional cuisines of many regions. They are an easy and long-lasting food in its dried seed nature, and thanks to the genetic diversity it still retains today, varieties have developed that can adapt to cultivation in different microclimates.
Therefore, we invite you to dust off your favorite local legume recipe and tell us about a dish of your local gastronomy that you appreciate and why not, even experiment with recipes proposed by other participants!
THE CONTEST:
We invite you for the days of Saturday, Feb. 8, Sunday, Feb. 9 and Monday, Feb. 10 to soak your favorite legume, host friends and relatives for dinner, cook it according to the recipe that works best for you and finally enjoy it.
But before you consume the whole dish, remember to photograph it and then share your recipe with the entire INCREASE community!
Your post will be published on our social pages and can be read and voted on by everyone.
Don’t forget to add your preparation tips, preferences and invite your friends to this challenge as well.
If you are a restaurateur, canteens, associations, schools we invite you for the occasion to include at least one dish made with beans or other legumes in your menu and propose to your customers to enjoy with us the good and healthy of local legumes. Remember to share your recipe with the whole community by publishing the post and your location on our website; this way it will be easier to find you. If you wish during registration you can agree to show your name in the list of participants.
The celebration is active in many states, so search for international participation by typing #WorldPulsesDay and #LovePulses and you will find the different initiatives.
During the three days, prizes will be awarded for the recipes most voted for on social media and those considered most interesting by our panel of experts: so let’s get ‘like’.
The opportunities are not over!
The INCREASE project proposes you to become a citizen scientist. By participating in INCREASE’s Citizen Science Experiment
you can contribute to the enhancement of agrobiodiversity and support research!
By downloading the free INCREASE CSA App and registering, you will be able to cultivate some of the thousand bean varieties distributed by the project; moreover, by documenting their growth and collecting and exchanging the collected seeds with other citizens, you will contribute to the valorisation and decentralised conservation of genetic resources.
Register your participation in the 5th round of INCREASE’s Citizen Science Experiment until 28 February 2025!
If you have already participated in previous editions, you can confirm your membership for this new round as well, participate with your seeds and exchange seeds with other citizens.
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