ECI leads: Dr Jing Zhang, Dr Monika Zurek, and Dr Jennifer Lucey
This project develops a UK roadmap for pulses, exploring how they can play a larger role in delivering healthier diets, more resilient farming systems, and wider environmental benefits.
Building on previous work from the BeanMeals project which is part of the Transforming UK Food Systems programme, this project combines rapid evidence synthesis, targeted stakeholder conversations, and a multi-actor roundtable to identify key barriers, opportunities, and system-level levers for change. The focus is on UK-relevant crops and value chains, with particular attention to how production, consumption and policy can be better aligned. The roadmap aims to support more coordinated action across agriculture, food, and policy, and to inform future research and decision-making. The project brings together an interdisciplinary team working across food systems, agriculture, and nature-based solutions, with close engagement from external partners spanning policy, civil society, and practice.
