Story | 10 February 2020
Report by Peyvand Khorsandi, Sophie Smeulders and Tiziana Grassetti
Today is World Pulses Day when the likes of beans, chickpeas, cowpeas, split peas and peas take a bow.
"Pulses provide us with proteins," says Honourable Mangena, a smallholder farmer in Mumbwa, Zambia — one of the 51 countries from which the World Food Programme (WFP) procured 324,168 metric tons of pulses, worth US$ 18