Cover Image

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Akpo, Essegbemon.
Other Authors: Ojiewo, Christopher O., Omoigui, Lucky O., Rubyogo, Jean Claude., Varshney, Rajeev K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Electronic books.
Online Access:Click to View
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.

Similar Items