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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Checking the Pulse of India’s Dal Farmers -Shalini Bhutani

Checking the Pulse of India’s Dal Farmers -Shalini Bhutani

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published Published on Jul 29, 2016   modified Modified on Jul 29, 2016
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The question to ask is whether it makes environmental sense or effects social justice to ship our dals from across the seas?

Pulses — that group of legume crops which includes chickpeas, cowpeas, moong beans, red kidney beans, urad beans, lentils and diverse grams. No matter what your personal choice of dal is though, India is probably eating many if not most of them. But as the world’s largest consumer of pulses, Indians need to be concerned about issues other than simply what they cost at any given point of time. We need to be aware of both the global architecture as well as our own local conditions of pulses and pulse growers, and much more.

Global actors

The Global Pulse Confederation (GPC), headquartered in Dubai and formerly the International Pulse Trade and Industry Confederation (IPTIC), represents the global pulse industry value chain. Its members hold the annual Global Pulse Convention. While its members more than 600 are mostly private seed companies, GPC encourages national pulse associations to “become part of a mega movement to promote pulses (nutritional crop which helps fight, world hunger and climate change”). It’s easy to market the idea to governments that have to deal with starving or malnourished populations.

It was the negotiations of the GPC since 2011, which first got the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to pass a resolution to declare 2016 as the International Year of Pulses (IYP). FAO then got the United Nations (UN) General Assembly to declare IYP 2016. Hakan Bahceci, CEO of Hakan Foods and the then head of GPC, was in 2013 elected as the chairperson of the private sector mechanism (PSM) at the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome. At that same gathering in FAO in Rome, FAO ,embers approved the strategy for partnerships with the private sector. FAO has been tasked to facilitate the implementation of the IYP 2016. Bahceci, the previous head of GPC, now represents the pulse industry on FAO’s International Steering Committee of IYP 2016.

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TheWire.in, 28 July, 2016, http://thewire.in/54542/checking-pulse-indias-dal-farmers/


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