<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Concluding Remarks: The Tropical Legumes Projects Empowered Communities in a Wide Variety of Assets</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">E</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Akpo</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">C O</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Ojiewo</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">L O</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Omoigui</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">J C</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Rubyogo</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">R K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Varshney</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>After 12 years of activity, the Tropical Legumes (TL) projects come to an end the&#13;
year 2019. In addition to quantitative impact assessment, this publication brings to&#13;
light various stakeholders’ own words about the kind of benefits they have made&#13;
thanks to the TL projects. Research institutions, management and technical staff,&#13;
extension services, NGOs, public and private seed companies, agro-dealers, farmer&#13;
cooperatives, farmer groups, individual seed entrepreneurs, farmers, women farmers,&#13;
processors, farm implement makers, middlemen, and traders have all shared&#13;
their unique impact stories for being part of TL families.&#13;
From poor knowledge of recently developed legume technologies, most communities&#13;
in the project areas of the target countries have been widely exposed and&#13;
have a very good knowledge and use of newly released varieties of groundnut, common&#13;
bean, cowpea and chickpea. This allowed them to increase crop productivity&#13;
and production, improve resilience to advert weather conditions, and enhance family&#13;
welfare through various livelihood assets such as ownership of land, houses,&#13;
transport means, market connections, social recognition, food security, children&#13;
education, health care, etc. The huge smiles on different faces pictured in this publication&#13;
is illustrative.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Smallholder Farmers</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Genetics and Genomics</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Legume Crops</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Sub-Saharan Africa</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2020</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Book Section</mods:genre></mods:mods>