Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash : : A Renaissance Within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Place / Publishing House: | Singapore : : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,, 2020. ©2020. |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
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505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1: A Brief Overview of Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties -- 2: Impact Stories and Testimonies from Diverse Actors in Groundnut Value Chain in Tanzania -- 2.1 Farmers and Farmer Groups in Remote Communities Share Their Benefits from TL Projects' Investments in Tanzania -- 2.1.1 Farmer Sharing Asset Enhancement Through Groundnut Production -- 2.1.2 Farmer Groups Take Up Groundnut Farming as a Business -- 2.1.3 Informed Decision-Making for Groundnut Production -- 2.1.4 Improved Groundnut Varieties Planted at the Dispensary Farm to Teach the Nutritional Benefit to Communities -- 2.1.5 Agricultural School Facilitating Community Access to Improved Varieties of Groundnut -- 2.2 Seed Companies and Agro-Dealers Got Interested in Groundnut Seed Business -- 2.2.1 Seed Companies Venture into Groundnut Business -- 2.2.2 Agro-Dealers Have Improved Their Business in Tunduru -- 2.3 Groundnut Processors and Traders Boosting Their Business and Making More Cash -- 2.3.1 Processors in Tanzania Now Processing Cash -- 2.3.2 New Business Opportunities Through Purchase and Sale of Groundnut in Kahama -- 2.4 Researchers Share Their Views of Groundnut Breeding and Research Efficiencies Enhancement in Tanzania -- 2.4.1 The Breeder Who Is Glad to Have Been Alive When the TL Projects Set in Tanzania -- 2.4.2 Happy, a Breeder at TARI-Naliendele, Is Now a Happier Breeder -- 2.5 TL Projects' Investments in Research Infrastructure of the National Agricultural Research Systems -- 2.5.1 Irrigation Facilities Fully Installed at the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute-Naliendele, Tanzania -- 2.5.2 The TL Projects Have Catalyzed Our Work of Research, at TARI-Naliendele, Mtwara -- 2.6 Sensitivity Towards Gender Equality and Equity. | |
505 | 8 | |a 2.6.1 TL Projects Attribute Success to Among Other Things, Sensitivity Towards Gender-Related Issues -- 2.6.1.1 Professor Joseph Hella in Morogoro, Tanzania, in March 2018 -- 2.7 TL Projects Extended Research Capacity Building Beyond Focal Research Centers Across Tanzania -- 2.8 Digitization of Data Collection Practices Becomes the Common Practice Within the Research Programs -- 2.9 TL Projects Make Work Easier for Agricultural Extension Officers in Tanzania -- 2.10 Development Organizations Partnered to Spread Improved Varieties to Communities -- 2.11 District Authorities Happy with TL Achievements for Their Farming Communities -- 3: Common Bean Value Chain Actors Share Their Feeling About TL Projects in Tanzania -- 3.1 TL Projects Enhance the Effectiveness of Breeding of Common Beans in Tanzania -- 3.1.1 Researcher Shares Perceptions of TL Projects' Achievements -- 3.1.2 Nutrient-Dense Common Beans Available to Improve Malnutrition -- 3.1.3 TL Projects Have Increased Research on Beans Seed Systems -- 3.1.4 TL Projects in Tanzania Factor in Issues of Gender in Bean Production -- 3.2 Research Technicians in Common Beans Production Get Specialized Tools of Work and Trainings Under TL Projects -- 3.3 Research Centre Directors Attest the Increase of Resources and Infrastructure Under TL Projects -- 3.4 Agricultural Extension Officers in the Bean Crop Tell of Their Benefits Under TL Projects in Tanzania -- 3.5 Non-Governmental Organizations Working Hand in Hand with TL Projects to Develop Production of Common Beans in Tanzania -- 3.6 Private and Public Seed Enterprises Flourishing in Common Bean -- 3.6.1 Private Seed Companies Venture into Multiplication and Distribution of Improved Bean Varieties. | |
505 | 8 | |a 3.6.2 Public Seed Companies in Tanzania, Agricultural Seed Agency (ASA) Takes Up Multiplication of Improved Varieties of Beans in Partnership with TL Projects -- 3.6.3 Agro-Dealers Find Business in Improved Bean Varieties Through Efforts by TL Projects in Tanzania -- 3.7 Farmer Groups Improve Their Livelihoods Through Production of Improved Bean Varieties in Tanzania -- 3.8 Bean Grain Market Fed with New Varieties -- 3.8.1 Grain Farmers Embrace New Bean Varieties After Rollout of TL Projects in Tanzania -- 3.8.2 Processors in a New Niche in Improved Bean Varieties -- 3.8.3 Beans Lovers in Tanzania Now Consume Improved Varieties Courtesy of TL Projects in the Country -- 4: Enthusiasm of Actors Within the Groundnut Value Chain Sharing Impact Stories in Uganda -- 4.1 Women's Battle for Financial Independence: How Women Are Using Groundnut to Attain Financial Stability in Uganda -- 4.2 Against All Odds: Farmers Actualizing Their Dreams with New Groundnut Varieties -- 4.3 Scaling up Improved Groundnut Varieties: Tropical Legumes Revolutionized Groundnut Breeding in Uganda -- 5: Empowered Communities Tell Their Own Stories from Common Bean Production in Uganda -- 5.1 Empowering Rural Women in Central Uganda to Achieve Higher Income and Improved Food Security with New Bean Varieties -- 5.2 The Exciting Experience of Common Bean Seed Producer Cooperatives -- 5.2.1 The Successful Experience of Gomba Seed Producers' Cooperative, Gomba, Uganda -- 5.2.2 Improving Livelihoods of Smallholder Bean Farmers in Uganda: The Success of Kyazanga Bean Seed Farmer Cooperative -- 5.2.3 CEDO Ensuring Access of Improved Varieties of Bean to Smallholder Farmers and Vulnerable Groups in Uganda -- 5.3 Strengthening the Bean Breeding Program and Value Chain in Uganda -- 6: Breakthroughs in Groundnut Production Communities in Nigeria. | |
505 | 8 | |a 6.1 Enriching Lives of Women: Groundnut Production and Processing Is a Mine of Wealth for Women in Northern Nigeria -- 6.2 Seed Companies Helping to Lift People Out of Poverty: A Breakthrough in Seed Systems with Maina Seeds and Greenspore -- 6.3 New Groundnut Varieties Released by Breeding Program After Decades -- 7: Women at the Center of Cowpea Value Chain Development in Nigeria -- 7.1 Woman Transforming Her Family Life and That of Her Community -- 7.2 From Grass to Great: Tropical Legumes Projects Have Changed the Pattern of Agricultural Extension in Northern Nigeria and Nigerian Farmers Increase Their Cowpea Production -- 7.3 Enhanced Production of Early Generation Seed of Cowpea -- 8: Better-off Women Boosting Groundnut Business in Ghana -- 8.1 More Groundnut Means Shelling Is a Business -- 8.2 Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) Boosting Groundnut Production Among Small Holder Farmers in Northern Ghana -- 8.2.1 Formation of Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) -- 8.2.2 Training of VSLA Community Volunteers -- 8.3 Cutting Down the Breeding Cycle and Revamping the Groundnut Seed Systems -- 8.4 A Very Innovative Way of Making Foundation Seed Available to the Seed Producers -- 9: Concluding Remarks: The Tropical Legumes Projects Empowered Communities in a Wide Variety of Assets. | |
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