eprintid: 11683
rev_number: 11
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datestamp: 2020-12-30 10:49:48
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creators_name: Fikre, A
creators_name: Desmae, H
creators_name: Ahmed, S
icrisatcreators_name: Desmae, H
affiliation: Legume Research Program, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Crops Research Directorate, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
affiliation: ICRISAT (Bamako)
affiliation: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Rabat
country: Ethiopia
country: Mali
country: Morocco
title: Tapping the Economic Potential of Chickpea in Sub-Saharan Africa
ispublished: pub
subjects: PLB1
subjects: ag5
subjects: s1.1
subjects: s33
subjects: sed1
divisions: CRPS1
crps: CG1
full_text_status: public
keywords: Chickpea, SSA, Economic potential, Market, Farmer preference, Intensification, Breeding, Seed systems
abstract: Chickpea is a nutrition-rich, cropping-system friendly, climate-resilient, and low-cost
production crop. It has large economic potential in the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region, where it
currently accounts for only approximately half a million hectares of the approximately 12 million
hectares of total chickpea production land worldwide. This review highlights the opportunities for
promoting chickpea production and marketing to tap the vast economic potential in SSA. The region
can potentially produce chickpea on approximately 10 million hectares, possibly doubling the
global production, and the region could become one of the highest consumption geographies of
this healthy crop. Chickpea could easily be integrated into existing cropping systems including
rice-fallows and cereal monocropping systems. Successful cases studies of the crop in the region are
highlighted. The region could tap into the potential at scale through intervention in the agricultural
policy environment and development and promotion of improved chickpea production technologies
supported by well-organized extension services and sustainable seed systems. These interventions
could be complemented with value addition and product quality improvementsÍ for SSA chickpea to
benefit from high-value markets.
date: 2020-11
date_type: published
publication: Agronomy (TSI)
volume: 10
number: 11
publisher: MDPI
pagerange: 1-22
id_number: doi:10.3390/agronomy10111707
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2073-4395
official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10111707
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=10.3390%2Fagronomy10111707&btnG=
related_url_type: pub
funders: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
citation:   Fikre, A and Desmae, H and Ahmed, S  (2020) Tapping the Economic Potential of Chickpea in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Agronomy (TSI), 10 (11).  pp. 1-22.  ISSN 2073-4395     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11683/1/agronomy-10-01707.pdf