relation: https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/57824/
title: Encouraging public demand for sustainable, healthy plant protein products from intercrops - IntercropVALUES Practice Abstract
creator: Carlsson, Georg
creator: Chongtham, Raj
subject:  Community development
subject:  Networks and ownership
description: Eating legume-based foods enhances public health. Providing profitable outlets will encourage farmers to grow more intercropped legumes.     Practical recommendations  To increase demand for a category of plant protein, multiple actors need to change their habits—not only consumers, but also retailers, processors, and public kitchens.  One option for tackling this challenge is to organise so called food jams: cooking sessions in groups where participants are provided with clear instructions, ingredients, and equipment to prepare one or several meals according to prepared recipes.  Boosting public demand by spreading knowledge and providing hands-on instructions on how to pre-pare tasty legume meals from local ingredients will help farmers to sell their intercropped legume products.  In Sweden, the communication project Food Jams translated results from research to short movies, arti-cles, and recipes that explain the benefits of growing and eating legumes. The project also organised food jams for legume cooking, especially adapted to school kitchens, and produced instructions and material for others to also organise legume food jams.
date: 2026
type: Practice tool
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: /id/eprint/57824/1/IntercropVALUES%20PA13%20CICS2%20Sweden_EN.pdf
format: application/pdf
language: sv
identifier: /id/eprint/57824/2/IntercropVALUES%20PA13%20CICS2%20Sweden_SE.pdf
format: image/png
language: en
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identifier:          {Tool}   Encouraging public demand for sustainable, healthy plant protein products from intercrops - IntercropVALUES Practice Abstract.          Creator(s): Carlsson, Georg and Chongtham, Raj.  Issuing Organisation(s): IFOAM Organics Europe.  (2026)    
type: Practice tool
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/other
relation: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/101081973
relation: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/101081973
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess