Lars Wernze is a farmer and also a researcher at the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences in Soest, Germany. He also completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Agricultural Economics in Soest. He is involved in various research projects on legumes, such as the German LeguNet network and the EU Belis project. In this context, his research focuses on governance and business model structures in legume breeding, as well as on market and price transparency in legume markets.