Anna Sudy PULSES, 2016
The 68th UN General Assembly declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses (IYP) (A/RES/68/231)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)Â has been nominated to facilitate the implementation of the Year in collaboration with Governments, relevant organizations, non-governmental organizations and all other relevant stakeholders.
The IYP 2016 aims to heighten public awareness of the nutritional benefits of pulses as part of sustainable food production aimed towards food security and nutrition. The Year will create a unique opportunity to encourage connections throughout the food chain that would better utilize pulse-based proteins, further global production of pulses, better utilize crop rotations and address the challenges in the trade of pulses.
A project for the International Year of Pulses was created by kunstGarten – Irmi and Reinfrid Horn – in cooperation with HTBLVA Ortweinschule Art and Design Graz: Students from 2YHKU class and their teachers for art Mag.a Agnes Christine Katschner and DPin Melitta Ritzinger.
We started with theoretical informations about the pulses´history by slide-shows; we were talking about food and recipes, health, soils …