This document summarizes updates from the 2010 PABRA SC meeting in South Africa. 1. The PABRA framework involves 11 member countries in southern Africa collaborating on bean research. 2. Key outcomes of the meeting included developing bean varieties resistant to environmental stresses and increasing nutrient-rich varieties to improve nutrition. 3. Activities involved identifying sources of stress resistance, distributing germplasm, developing integrated soil and pest management options, and breeding beans with higher iron and zinc content.

1. Updates to PABRA SC 2010
Member Countries
1. Angola
2. South DRC
2 South DRC
3. Lesotho
4. Malawi
5. Mauritius
6. Mozambique
7. South Africa
8. Swaziland
9. Tanzania
10. Zambia
10 Zambia
11. Zimbabwe
R. M. Chirwa
PABRA SC meeting, Cedara, South Africa – 22-24 March, 2010

2. OUTLINE
• Background
• Implementing the PABRA frame work 2009-10
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Capacity building
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3. Background
• SABRN – Operates under the SADC‐FANR – managed by
CIAT
• Strategic Research:
– Generic outputs concepts and products for wide
Generic outputs, concepts and products ‐ for wide
application across countries in the region
– Methodologies, processes and information to
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facilitate wide adoption and adaptation of
technologies
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Collaborative activities with partners ‐ exploiting
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comparative advantages.
• Institutional and capacity development
Institutional and capacity development
• Networking – Exchange of information & technologies

4. Outcome #1: Increased access and
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utilization of improved bean
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varieties resistant to multiple
environmental stresses
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5. Output 1.1 New or revised tools for targeting technologies for
specific environmental stresses including those associated
with climate change and socio-economic variables widely
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available to development and farmer organizations
Activity Set #1.1.1 Review
and analyze current and
future risks to bean
production and utilization
associated with major
environmental stresses
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(prevalent drought and
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floods, heat, acid soils,
salinity, low soil fertility, risk 1.1.1.5 Collect All SABRN
of soil degradation, pest and information required countries were
diseases) and end user for PABRA Bean g g
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systems Atlas.

6. Output #1.2: Mechanisms for resistance to environmental
stresses are understood and used to generate improved
varieties resistant to specific environmental stresses
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Activity Set #1.2.1 Study, validate and document the genetic, physiological,
pathogenic and pest mechanisms conferring resistance to different environmental
stresses (linking with capacity building) and generate new stress resistant bean
germplasm
1.2.1.1 Review the status and
characterize old/new pests and diseases:
All countries involved. Focus on ZA:
(ALS, ANT, HB, rust); MW and s/TZ
(Bruchid); Malawi
(B hid) M l i (BSM)
Rust ALS Bruchid
1.2.1.2. Identify sources of resistance to
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may have emerged (p
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climate change): specific site focus:
SABRN: ZA: ALS, ANT,HB, RUST:
TZ: ANT, ALS (AGRA) and MW:
Bruchid (AGRA) & TZ (McKnight),
(McKnight)
MW: BSM (PABRA)
Interspecific hybrids P. vulgaris x P. acutifolius

7. Output #1.2: Mechanisms for resistance to
environmental stresses are understood and used to
environmental stresses are understood and used to
generate improved varieties resistant to specific
environmental stresses
environmental stresses
Activity Set #1.2.1 Study, validate and document the genetic, physiological,
pathogenic and pest mechanisms conferring resistance to different
environmental stresses (linking with capacity building) and generate new
stress resistant bean germplasm
1.2.2.5. Continue development, testing advance Various Countries
lines and variety release with resistance to received multiple
multiple constraints constraint germplasm
1.2.2.12 Take stock of available germplasm with Various countries
multiple resistances to stresses (biotic and contributed lines with
abiotic) and distribute a nursery for regional multiple resistance (TZ,
evaluation. ZA & MW) plus CIAT
and these were
distributed through
regional trials

8. Bean Germplasm Distributed in 2009
Description Lines Number of sets by country
AO LS MW MZ SZ MR
Regional Bean Yield Trial
g 20 1 2 2 1
Regional Bean Evaluation Nursery 100 1 2 2 1
Drought resistance – Small seeded 133 1 1
Drought resistance – Large seeded 21 1 2 2 1
Bean Stem Maggot Resistance 5 4 1
Sugar Bean Nursery 63 1 1
Calima Bean Nursery 210 1
Small white bean (Navy) nursery 45 1 1
Biofortified fast Track lines 39 1 1 1
Biofortified large seeded beans 60 1 1
Medium climbing beans 13 3
Heavy climbing beans 38 3
Red Kidney dwarf bean lines 33 3 3
Red kidney climbing bean lines 17 3 3
Navy beans 70 3 3

9. Outcome# 2: Farmers access, adapt
access
and use, cost effective, integrated
environmental stress management
options to better manage soil
fertility/moisture and crop
pests/diseases and i
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capacity to respond to stress

10. Output 2.1: New and existing options and strategies for
managing different stress environments are available to
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farmers through partners using participatory approaches.
Activity set # 2.1.1: Develop/identify strategies
that address problems associated with
intensification in bean cropping systems to
generate and promote technologies associated
with stresses under crop intensification Tephrosia
2.1.1.1 Developing IDPM and ISFM packages
related to intensification of bean cropping systems 1. Soil Fertility
– T h i i Malawi and Tanzania – M K i ht
Tephrosia in M l i d T i McKnight
Foundation.
3. Storage Pest Control 2. Field Pest Control

11. Output 2.1: New and existing options and strategies for
managing different stress environments are available to
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farmers through partners using participatory approaches.
Activity set # 2.1.1: Develop/identify
strategies that address problems
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associated with intensification in
bean cropping systems to generate
and promote technologies associated
with stresses under crop
intensification
2.1.1.2 Identify packages for
potential scaling up and develop
strategies with partners through
participatory research processes and
others by gender in target countries:
Various technologies are available in different countries Swaziland
countries.
continued to promote use of Crotalaria as green manure and seed
multiplication to be done by male and female farmers.

12. Outcome #3: Increased
micronutrient-rich bean varieties
and products i th diets of th
d d t in the di t f the
vulnerable communities
(children, women, and PLWHA)
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improve their nutrition and
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health

13. Output 3.1. Bean varieties with improved
micronutrient concentration and superior agronomic
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traits developed and made available.
Activity sets# 3.1.1: Identify elite parental sources for seed iron and zinc
concentration and use in conventional and marker assisted breeding for high
nutrition quality, market, high yield and stress tolerant varieties and assess
mineral stability across agro-ecological zones
3.1.1.1. Identify and validate parental lines High Fe and Zn parental lines:
for key traits (Fe/Zn, abiotic and biotic AND620 & NUA56 were used in
stress) and generate F1 and F2 MW, ZA, TZ, ZM and ZW) to
populations generate F1 and F2
3.1.1.2. Select recombinants and evaluate MW & ZA have advanced bean
F3 –F6 populations
F6 l i lines for high Fe &Zn content
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which will be evaluated further
3.1.1.5 Conduct national performance Zimbabwe needs DUS and they
trials and DUS tests for candidate fast conducted national performance
track lines trials

14. Yield performance of NUA 45 across
five sites
five sites

15. Output 3.2 Bean based food products targeted to specific
deficiencies, developed, tested and made available to
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vulnerable areas/communities.
Activity set# 3.2.1: Assess and map prevalence of target nutritional
deficiencies among vulnerable groups and develop value added bean-based
bean based
food products for household consumption, supplementary feeding and for
markets with agricultural, health and nutrition partners
3.2.1.1 Assess prevalent target nutritional •A nutrition working group was
deficiencies, consolidate available primary established
and secondary data, conduct a mapping •Target deficiencies were identified
exercise, document, publish and Fe, Zn, protein ‐ energy
disseminate available data malnutrition and general nutrition
•Cluster studies have been planned
in MW, ZM and TZ
in MW ZM and TZ
3.2.1.2 Develop value added bean based In ZM and MW partners have
food products (at house hold level, developed contracts and activities
community and large scale) started in February and March.
started in February and March

16. Output 3.3: Bio‐availability, bio‐efficacy, retention of
micronutrients and health qualities (alfatoxins) of
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bean grain determined
Activity sets#3.3.1: Link with Harvest-Plus to determine bioavailability of iron
and zinc in selected micronutrient rich bean varieties and bean based meals
under various conditions (e.g. soaking, germination, fermenting, cooking)
across PABRA countries.
3.3.1.3 Produce seed of micronutrient
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Malawi and Southern highlands
rich bean varieties in selected countries Tanzania have bean varieties with
an Fe (90ppm) and Zn (35ppm).
These were targeted for
These were targeted for
multiplication and dissemination in
each country.
Maharagi Soya
Fe 110ppm
Zn 41ppm
S/H Tanzania
Malawi NUA 45 NUA 59
Fe 102ppm Fe 112ppm
Zn 35ppm Zn 43ppm

17. Outcome # 4: Small holder farmers,
farmers
traders and other value chain actors
benefit more from opportunities
created by emerging new and
expanding existing markets

18. Output 4.1: Farmers have access to information on markets and
are effectively linked to national, regional and international
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bean markets using equitable
Activity set# 4.1.1: Conduct value chain analysis for bean based products in
national, regional and international markets: develop strategies for effectively
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linking smallholder farmers.
4.1.1.2. Review, and •The PABRA markets working group was constituted
evaluate national bean in September 2009
market information
systems •The SABRN countries that participate are: MW,
4.1.1.3. Document and MZ, ZM, ZW, sTZ, LS, MR and SZ.
evaluate major bean
markets- their •Tools to review and document the bean grain and
characteristics, constraints seed market information were completed and
and opportunities circulated to country market resource persons.
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4.1.1.4. Conduct
disaggregated dry bean •Bean product markets have been documented in
value chain analysis – dry these countries
beans

19. Output 4.1: Farmers have access to information on markets and
are effectively linked to national, regional and international
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bean markets using equitable
Activity set# 4.2.1: Generate dry, snap, climbing, runner, canning bean
varieties for niche markets and evaluate with farmers (male and
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female) and other chain actors (consumers, traders, hoteliers, farmers,
processors etc.)
4.2.1.1: Identify d lid t
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parental lines for key traits (dry
classes using known
beans and canning beans) and parents is under way in
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generate F1 and F2 populations
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ZW
4.2.1.2 Select recombinants and Advanced populations
evaluate F 3 – F6 populations were evaluated in various
countries: Zambia
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released a canning bean
Lwangeni, and Malawi
released 3 dry bean
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varieties : 2 Calima
(NUA45, NUA59) & 1
Sugar (VTTT924/4-4)

20. Output 4.1: Farmers have access to information on markets and
are effectively linked to national, regional and international
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bean markets using equitable
Activity set #4.2.2 Increase of existing released varieties for exhibition
with various value chain actors and distribute seeds
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4.2.2.1 Develop demonstration plots and variety leaflets
for released and pre-release varieties of bush and
climbing beans
•Malawi mounted demo plots for the
new CALIMA varieties for on-station
field day.
•In addition they developed a
brochure for existing varieties
(SUG131 & UBR(92)25 NUA 59 NUA 45

21. Outcome #5: Diverse clientele of
men and women end-users are using
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adapted and p
p preferred bean
varieties, environment stress
management options and
options,
micronutrients bean- based products
through leveraging sustainable
approaches for product production,
delivery and information sharing

22. Outcome #6: PABRA partners have
increased ability to respond to
demands in the bean sector, and are
utilizing g
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influence bean related national and
regional policy and advocacy
matters

23. Output 6.3: A strategy for influencing policy and
advocacy in PABRA defined and promoted.
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Activity set#6.3.1 Identify, analyze key gaps in existing agricultural seed,
health, environmental stress policies which inhibit development of efficient
h lh i l li i hi h i hibi d l f ffi i
and sustainable delivery systems and establish strategies to influence
regulatory bodies and agricultural policy makers to address policy gaps.
6.3.1.6 Catalyze All SABRN
exchange of countries except
information and
i f i d sDRC participated
DRC ti i t d
reporting within in the SABRN SC
PABRA: a. Network meeting which was
Steering Committee by
g y held in October at
network partners – ARC-GCI,
SABRN countries (Oct Potchefstroom
2010)

24. Degree training
NAME DEG UNIVERSITY FUNDING STATUS
Kanyenga Lubobo MSc Univ. of Lubumbashi PABRA Finished 2009
Magalhaes Miguel PhD Penn State Univ
Univ. McKnight Final Year
Soares Xerinda PhD Penn State Univ. McKnight Final Year
Celestina Jochua PhD Penn State Univ. McKnight Final Year
Virginia Chisale MSc Penn State Univ. USAID 2nd Year
Godwill Makunde PhD Free State Univ. TL-II 2nd Year
Lizzie Kalolokesya MSc Univ.
Univ of Zambia TL-II Final Year
Abraham Dhlamini MSc Univ of Pretoria Others started
Issac Fandika PhD New Zealand Others 2nd Year

25. Non Degree Training
Non‐Degree Training
• Statistical Analyses – using GENSTAT was
Statistical Analyses using GENSTAT was
organized in Malawi for McKnight funded
projects (Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania)
projects (Malawi Mozambique and Tanzania)
• Phenotyping genotypes for drought resistance
– a short course was conducted by CIAT‐HQ staff for
h t d t d b CIAT HQ t ff f
TL‐II project ‐ Malawi and Zimbabwe
• Ph
Phenotyping for bean diseases
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– a short course was conducted by CIAT‐Uganda for
staff from various SABRN countries.
t ff f i SABRN ti

26. Workshops and Meetings
o s ops a d ee gs
• Participate in the PABRA SC meeting in Nairobi, Kenya – April
2009
• Organized the TL‐I Annual Review meeting in Malawi for all
stakeholders – April 2009
• Participated in the ne PABRA Phase implementation plan
Participated in the new PABRA Phase implementation plan –
September 2009
• Participated in the CCRP East and Southern Africa Culture of
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Practice meeting in Dar es Salaam – September 2009
• Organized SABRN SC meeting ‐ October 2009
• ECABREN SC meeting – February 2010

27. Outcome 7: Increased i t
O t 7 I d integration of
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gender and equality p p
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implementation of PABRA research
and development agenda

28. Thank You
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