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Legume breeding and seed systems for improved livelihoods and impact

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Title Legume breeding and seed systems for improved livelihoods and impact
 
Creator Monyo, E S
Desmae, H
Boukar, O
Mukankusi, C
Gaur, P M
Okori, P
Motagi, B N
Ajeigbe, H A
Fatokun, C
Moukumbi, Y
Kamara, A
Omoigui, L
Arega, A
Mausch, K
Bodo, R
Beebe, S
Ojiewo, C O
Rubyogo, J
Akpo, E
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Plant Breeding
Semi-arid tropics
Drought
African Agriculture
Indian Agriculture
Legume Crops
Seed Systems
 
Description The Tropical Legumes III project aims to reduce food insecurity
in drought-prone areas of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and South
Asia (SA), through improved productivity and production of
four major grain legumes – chickpea, common bean, cowpea
and groundnut. This is being sone by conducting research
under three complementary research and delivery pillars: support
for the development and release of farmer-preferred varieties;
strengthening of the legume breeding capacity of partner
CGIAR centers (ICRISAT, IITA and CIAT), and national partners
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania and
Uganda; and establishment of sustainable seed delivery systems
that service the needs of small-holderfarmers. Significant
achievements have been recorded. Breeding program assessments
have been completed in all countries and improvement
plans developed for execution. New seed varieties (163) have
been released and are fast replacing the old ruling seed varieties
in all target countries. Thirty seven national partners were
trained at MSc and PhD levels. As a result of the enhanced
skills and knowledge of seed value chain actors, seed production
significantly increased by 221% (from 139,048 to 446,359
tons) in seven years. Since 2007, improved varieties have been
adopted on at least 2 million hectares and more than $448
million has been generated from the project funding and nearly
$976 million from the project and investment partners. For
each dollar invested, the project generated $9 with direct project
investment or $20 with partnership’s investment, and again $20
when using adoption rate based estimate. These achievements
and implementation challenges will be discussed.
 
Date 2017-02
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10247/1/Abstract_Book_69.pdf
Monyo, E S and Desmae, H and Boukar, O and Mukankusi, C and Gaur, P M and Okori, P and Motagi, B N and Ajeigbe, H A and Fatokun, C and Moukumbi, Y and Kamara, A and Omoigui, L and Arega, A and Mausch, K and Bodo, R and Beebe, S and Ojiewo, C O and Rubyogo, J and Akpo, E and Varshney, R K (2017) Legume breeding and seed systems for improved livelihoods and impact. In: InterDrought-V, February 21-25, 2017, Hyderabad, India.