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Tropical legumes iii :Improving livelihoods for smallholder farmers:Enhanced grain legume productivity and production in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

  1. Tropical Legumes - III (TL III) E Monyo and RK Varshney Improving livelihoods for smallholder farmers: Enhanced grain legume productivity and production in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Presented at the ICRISAT ESA Regional In-house 26 - 27 April, 2016
  2. TL III Focus Geographies and Crops
  3. Position of TL in the BMGF Grant potfolio – The largest legume grant in the Foundation’s grant system – Is one of few selected BMGF Sentinel Grants identified to provide learning to the BMGF overall Agric. Dev. investment – TL III (the 3rd phase of the project now in its 8th year) officially started in April 2015
  4. TLIII OUTCOMES • Women’s production capacities enhanced and gender yield gap in legume systems closed by 20% • ICRISAT groundnut and chickpea, CIAT common beans and IITA cowpea have shown significant improvements in effectiveness • Realized productivity and production gains (20 – 50%) for groundnut, chickpea, cowpea and common bean over improved and local varieties in focus geographies • Delivery partners are producing and disseminating quality seeds of improved varieties of all 4 legumes in sufficient quantities to cover 20% of the area cropped with over half the beneficiary SHF being women
  5. Management W/plan activities and achievements for 2015 • Implementing a multi-stakeholder project launch workshop • Implementing National Annual Planning meetings • Curation and dissemination of TL-III Data as global public goods • Communicating TL-III project progress, achievements and impact • Supporting breeding pipelines for groundnuts, cowpea, common bean, and chickpea in target TL-III countries • Management and reporting of Project achievements
  6. TL III Theory of Change
  7. Challenges, Constraints, Risks & Mitigations • It has taken long to fill the project positions – hence the project is off to a slow start (The gender scientist has not joined to-date and gender related research activities are behind schedule) • Ongoing security and instability in parts of Mali and Nigeria • Drought in Ethiopia (ElNino effect of 2015) .
  8. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation THANKS
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