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creators_name: Varshney, R K
creators_name: Ojiewo, C O
creators_name: Monyo, E
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affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Nairobi)
country: India
country: Kenya
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
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keywords: Tropical Legumes (TL) projects, breeding, food security, genomics, legumes, seed system, Chickpea, Cowpea, Common bean, Groundnut, Pigeonpea, Soybean, Grain Legumes, Legume Crops, legume production, Africa, South Asia,
sub‐Saharan Africa, smallholder farmers, crop varieties, crop improvement, ICRISAT, CIAT, IITA, partnership, collaboration, Tropical Legumes
note: The authors of this article/editor of this special issue are thankful to
all the scientists, research staff and leadership team of NARS partners
and the three CGIAR centres, namely ICRISAT, CIAT and IITA
for their contribution to successfully implementing the three phases
of the project. We are also thankful to Dr CLL Gowda, Principal
Investigator and Dr Tsedeke Abate, Project Coordinator of Phase I
and part of Phase II of Tropical Legumes project for all their contributions.
Sincere thanks are due to Dr David Bergvinson (2007–2013)
and Dr Jeff Ehlers (2013–2019), Program Managers from BMGF for
their guidance, support and mentoring and the BMGF for the financial
support to the three phases of the project. Thanks are also due
to other funding agencies and organizations for leveraging support
to TL projects as its activities were initially undertaken as a part
of CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and subsequently
of the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland
Cereals (CRP‐GLDC). ICRISAT is a member of the CGIAR System
Organization.
abstract: 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.
date: 2019-08
date_type: published
publication: Plant Breeding (TSI)
volume: 138
number: 4
publisher: Wiley
pagerange: 379-388
id_number: 10.1111/pbr.12744
refereed: TRUE
issn: 01799541
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1111/pbr.12744
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funders: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Grant/Award Number: OPP1114827
citation:   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     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11248/1/Varshney_et_al-2019-Plant_Breeding.pdf