Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash A Renaissance within Communities i

This open access book shares impact stories – testimonies from various value chain actors who have been part of the Tropical Legumes (TL) projects, over the past twelve years. The Tropical Legumes projects led by ICRISAT in three parts (TLI, TLII and

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Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash A Renaissance within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash

Essegbemon Akpo • Christopher O. Ojiewo • Lucky O. Omoigui • Jean Claude Rubyogo •  Rajeev K. Varshney

Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash A Renaissance within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Photo Credits David Okello Kalule (1st cover photo) Justin Ndichu (2nd cover photo) Agathe Diama Eleanor Manyassa

Essegbemon Akpo International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Nairobi, Kenya

Christopher O. Ojiewo International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Nairobi, Kenya

Lucky O. Omoigui International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Kano, Nigeria

Jean Claude Rubyogo International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Arusha, Tanzania

Rajeev K. Varshney International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Patancheru, India

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Abstract

The smallholder farmers’ access to the outputs of the breeding programs’ achievements has been very weak and hence calls for effective, more coherent, and wellarticulat