World: The recently concluded COP28 created huge opportunity for pulses

A recently concluded global meeting on climate change has created a huge opportunity for pulses, say industry officials. They contend that the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (COP28) has paved the way for increased global attention and investment in crops such as peas, lentils, chickpeas and beans. Agriculture has not been a big theme in previous conferences, but it was in the December 2023 meeting held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. An entire day of the two-week conference was devoted to food, water and agriculture, during which the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization released a global roadmap for agriculture. The roadmap includes priorities such as reducing meat consumption in rich nations and lowering global fertilizer usage, two policies that tie in nicely with increased pulse crop production and consumption. Pulses could play a “very significant” role in the greening of the agriculture sector, according to an ...