TY  - CHAP
N2  - 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.
AV  - public
KW  - Grain legume productivity
KW  -  Smallholder farmers
KW  -  Impact stories
KW  -  Multi-stakeholders
KW  -  Sub-Saharan Africa
KW  -  Tropical Legumes projects
A1  - Akpo, E
A1  - Ojiewo, C O
A1  - Omoigui, L O
A1  - Rubyogo, J C
A1  - Varshney, R K
TI  - Concluding Remarks: The Tropical Legumes Projects Empowered Communities in a Wide Variety of Assets
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_9
T2  - Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash
SP  - 105
Y1  - 2020///
ID  - icrisat11611
EP  - 106
SN  - 978-981-15-0844-8
PB  - Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
CY  - Singapore
ER  -