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Dry kidney beans

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Removing beans from their pods. Image: Faiswal Kasirye

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Beans in an open air market in Malawi. Image: Louise Sperling

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Girl eating a meal of rice and beans

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A meal of maize and beans

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Children feeding on a meal of maize and beans

Photo by Purchase from Africans for Africa (PAA)

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Black eyed peas

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Black beans

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Groundnuts in pods

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Groundnuts

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Fresh soy beans

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Dried soybeans

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Soy milk

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Tofu (coagulated soy milk)…consumed a lot in Asia

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Soy cake

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Cooked soybeans

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Cooked green peas

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Cooked green grams

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Cooked chick peas

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Lentil dish

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Fresh pigeon peas

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Dried pigeon peas

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Cooked pigeon peas

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Bambara nuts

Unshelled Bambara nuts

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Shelled Bambara nuts

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Raw French beans

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Cooked French beans

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RURAL Outreach Africa (ROA) works with small scale farmers to promote production and

consumption of soya beans.

A farmer (far right) showing her plot of soya beans intercropped with maize. Photo by RURAL Outreach Africa (ROA)

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A ROA farmer showing visitors her soya beans plot

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Enjoying fried soya beans and soya mandazi

Photo by ROA

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Recommendations:

1. Continue with basic research, step

up applied research and innovations

2. Tackle seriously the policy side:

environment, seeds, nutrition

3. Support private sector with incentives

to start with: processors, credit,

markets

4. Support epidemiological studies to

provide empirical data on health

benefits: ie India vs others

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5. We need the fibre, the phytates, the

xanthines ( antioxidants) and all the

other healthy nutrients in legumes;

how do we retain these in our

breeding and processing?

6. The iron in legumes is normally tied

up, the bloating that people complain

about negates our efforts to feed

children legumes?

7. Image of legumes: Is it truly a poor

man's crop? Just a woman's crop an

therefore not important?

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8. Safety {AFLATOXINS} , Quality { too

many varieties in same species},

Taste, GLUTEN FREE { is Africa

concerned about this? }, can it

provide Omega 3? another crucial

element.

9. At the end of the day, whatever you

do must make sense food security

and nutritionally, economically,

environmentally, culturally (listen to

the cultural whispers), policy wise,

and practically.

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10. This not just the year for PULSES,

but is also the TIME for PULSES.

THANK YOU

Prof. Ruth Oniang’o, KENYA