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Pulses – legumes, beans and peas – are poised to become the food of 2016 thanks to a massive global marketing effort. The Â鶹AV Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) is closely involved with the pulse community, and will shortly launch the global Pulse Innovation Platform (PIP), the convening body for pulse-based food innovation globally, serving as catalyst for a novel model of business engagement in bringing solution at scale to challenges at the nexus of farm, food and health systems. PIP is an open forum for convergent innovation where members network and connect to identify bottlenecks hindering their own innovation, and develop solutions for themselves and for society that go beyond what individual members can achieve alone. PIP counts among its members multinational food companies, policy institutes, grower groups and UN (FAO). In India, the MCCHE is leading a national pulse-based food innovation competition, funded in part by IDRC. This competition is one of 8 global competitions as part of the UN-declared International Year of Pulses (2016). Read more about some of MCCHE’s partners in pulse innovation here:

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