eprintid: 11611
rev_number: 12
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3170
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datestamp: 2020-09-07 09:22:51
lastmod: 2020-09-07 09:22:51
status_changed: 2020-09-07 09:22:51
type: book_section
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Akpo, E
creators_name: Ojiewo, C O
creators_name: Omoigui, L O
creators_name: Rubyogo, J C
creators_name: Varshney, R K
icrisatcreators_name: Akpo, E
icrisatcreators_name: Ojiewo, C O
icrisatcreators_name: Varshney, R K
affiliation: ICRISAT (Nairobi)
affiliation: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Kano, Nigeria
affiliation: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Arusha, Tanzania
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
country: Kenya
country: Nigeria
country: Tanzania
country: India
title: Concluding Remarks: The Tropical Legumes Projects Empowered Communities in a Wide Variety of Assets
ispublished: pub
subjects: GL1
subjects: s2.13
subjects: s355
subjects: s4004
divisions: CRPS5
divisions: CRPS3
divisions: CRPS1
full_text_status: public
keywords: Grain legume productivity, Smallholder farmers, Impact stories, Multi-stakeholders, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tropical Legumes projects
abstract: 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.
date: 2020
date_type: published
publisher: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
place_of_pub: Singapore
pagerange: 105-106
pages: 2
id_number: doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_9
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-981-15-0844-8
book_title: Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_9
citation:   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     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11611/1/10.1007_978-981-15-0845-5_9.pdf