relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/11248/
title: A decade of Tropical Legumes projects: Development and adoption of improved varieties, creation of market-demand to benefit smallholder farmers and empowerment of national programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
creator: Varshney, R K
creator: Ojiewo, C O
creator: Monyo, E
subject: Abiotic Stress
subject: Agriculture Policy
subject: Burkina Faso
subject: Crop Improvement
subject: Drought Tolerance
subject: Ghana
subject: Smallholder Farmers
subject: Plant Breeding
subject: Nigeria
subject: South Asia
subject: Cowpea
subject: Agricultural Research
subject: Chickpea
subject: Pigeonpea
subject: Groundnut
subject: Drylands Agriculture
subject: Genetics and Genomics
subject: African Agriculture
subject: India
subject: Legume Crops
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa
subject: Niger
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Malawi
subject: Mali
subject: Mozambique
subject: Kenya
subject: Seed Systems
description: This article highlights 12 years (2007–2019) of research, achievements, lessons learned, challenges and gaps in discovery‐to‐delivery research in legumes emanating from three projects, collectively called Tropical Legumes (TL) with a total investment of about US$ 67 million funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. These projects were implemented by three CGIAR centres (ICRISAT, CIAT and IITA) together with 15 national agricultural research system partners in sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia. The TL projects together with some of their precursors and complementary projects from other agencies, facilitated the development of 266 improved legume varieties and the production of about 497,901 tons of certified seeds of the target legume crops in the focus countries. The certified seeds have been planted on about 5.0 million ha by more than 25 million smallholder farmers in the 15 countries and beyond, producing about 6.1 million tons of grain worth US$ 3.2 billion. Furthermore, the projects also trained 52 next generation scientists that included 10 women, by supporting 34 Masters degrees and 18 PhD degrees.
publisher: Wiley
date: 2019-08
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/11248/1/Varshney_et_al-2019-Plant_Breeding.pdf
identifier:   Varshney, R K and Ojiewo, C O and Monyo, E  (2019) A decade of Tropical Legumes projects: Development and adoption of improved varieties, creation of market-demand to benefit smallholder farmers and empowerment of national programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.  Plant Breeding (TSI), 138 (4).  pp. 379-388.  ISSN 01799541     
relation: https://doi.org/10.1111/pbr.12744
relation: 10.1111/pbr.12744