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Concluding Remarks: The Tropical Legumes Projects Empowered Communities in a Wide Variety of Assets

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11611/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_9
doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_9
 
Title Concluding Remarks: The Tropical Legumes Projects Empowered Communities in a Wide Variety of Assets
 
Creator Akpo, E
Ojiewo, C O
Omoigui, L O
Rubyogo, J C
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Smallholder Farmers
Genetics and Genomics
Legume Crops
Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Description After 12 years of activity, the Tropical Legumes (TL) projects come to an end the
year 2019. In addition to quantitative impact assessment, this publication brings to
light various stakeholders’ own words about the kind of benefits they have made
thanks to the TL projects. Research institutions, management and technical staff,
extension services, NGOs, public and private seed companies, agro-dealers, farmer
cooperatives, farmer groups, individual seed entrepreneurs, farmers, women farmers,
processors, farm implement makers, middlemen, and traders have all shared
their unique impact stories for being part of TL families.
From poor knowledge of recently developed legume technologies, most communities
in the project areas of the target countries have been widely exposed and
have a very good knowledge and use of newly released varieties of groundnut, common
bean, cowpea and chickpea. This allowed them to increase crop productivity
and production, improve resilience to advert weather conditions, and enhance family
welfare through various livelihood assets such as ownership of land, houses,
transport means, market connections, social recognition, food security, children
education, health care, etc. The huge smiles on different faces pictured in this publication
is illustrative.
 
Publisher Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
 
Date 2020
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11611/1/10.1007_978-981-15-0845-5_9.pdf
Akpo, E and Ojiewo, C O and Omoigui, L O and Rubyogo, J C and Varshney, R K (2020) Concluding Remarks: The Tropical Legumes Projects Empowered Communities in a Wide Variety of Assets. In: Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore, pp. 105-106. ISBN 978-981-15-0844-8