Scientists call for more bean and lentil production in Europe

게시됨 2021년 4월 14일

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A study titled 'Legume-Modified Rotations Deliver Nutrition With Lower Environmental Impact' published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems reveals that incorporating more legumes like beans and lentils into European agriculture could be a more sustainable and nutritious approach. The research is the first to provide comprehensive evidence that including legumes in typical crop rotations can lead to significant environmental benefits and increased nutritional value for both human and livestock diets. This could potentially support the European Union Green Deal's objectives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, pesticide use, and synthetic fertilizer use. Despite legumes being a rich source of essential nutrients, they only occupy 1.5% of European arable land, contrasting the global average of 14.5%. The study used a life cycle assessment to demonstrate that grain legumes in conventional cereal and oilseed rotations improved the delivery of human nutrition at a lower environmental cost in most impact categories. Furthermore, legume-modified rotations provided more digestible protein at a lower cost for livestock feed. The researchers emphasize the need for more research on this topic and plan to extend their study to other crop rotations and agricultural locations.

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Growing more legumes, like beans and lentils, is potentially a more sustainable and nutritious approach to European agriculture, shows a new study in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. This study claims it is the first holistic evidence that adding legumes to traditional crop rotations (typically including barley, wheat and rapeseed) offers significant environmental benefits as well as increased nutritional value for humans and livestock."This strategy can contribute significantly to the specific European Union Green Deal Farm to Fork objectives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, chemical pesticide use and synthetic fertilizer use," said first author Marcela Porto Costa, of Bangor University in the UK. "For example, in Scotland, we've shown that the introduction of a legume crop into the typical rotation reduced external nitrogen requirements by almost half whilst maintaining the same output of food measured in terms of potential human nutrition."In contrast to other crop ...

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