Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash : : A Renaissance Within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Author: Akpo, Essegbemon.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ojiewo, Christopher O.; Omoigui, Lucky O.; Rubyogo, Jean Claude.; Varshney, Rajeev K.
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (117 pages)

Table of Contents

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.

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.

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.

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.