TROPICAL LEGUMES II – PHASE II ICRISAT/IITA/CIAT/TL2-NARS

Presented to the Annual Meeting Tropical Legumes I

7 – 11 May 2012, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Emmanuel Monyo

TL II Project

ICRISAT-Nairobi

PROGRESS

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE:

• Improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in drought-prone areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia through enhanced grain legume production and productivity

Specifically the Project Aims to:

• Enhance productivity by at least 20% for six legume crops in drought-prone areas of SSA and SA, through the availability and adoption of improved crop varieties and associated crop management practices

– A partnership involving three CGIAR centers, 15 national programs, the private sector and other R&D organizations.

– Organized into 9 objectives; 6 crop-specific (Obj 2-7), 2 (Obj 1 & 8) common across the crops, and one (Obj 9) on management.

PROJECT LIFE • 10 Years of Three Phases

–Phase I: Sept 2007 – Aug 2011

–Phase II: Sept 2011 – Aug 2014

–Phase III: Sep 2014 – Aug 2017

• Guided by the belief “Every life have equal value” the foundation focuses on improving peoples health and giving them a chance to lift themselves out of extreme hunger and poverty.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO-DATE

VARIETY RELEASES Country GNUT SOYB COWP CHKP COMB PIGP Total

NGR 4 - 4 - - - 8

NGA - 4 3 - - - 7

MLI - - 4 - - - 4

MOZ 6 5 3 - - 4 18

KEN - 7 - 4 - 2 13

TAN 5 - - 4 - - 9

ETH - - - 2 6 - 8

MWI - 1 - - - 2 3

IND 7 - - 2 - 1 10

Total 22 17 14 12 6 5 80

Chickpeas 55 756, Gnuts 25 968, Beans 9 030

SEED CLASS (tons) Country Breeder Found Certified Other Total

Ethiopia 22 7,813 3,351 178 11,365

Malawi 47 158 3,188 - 3,393

Kenya 16 953 13 314 1,296

Mozambiq - 53 495 - 548

Tanzania 22 194 263 82 561

Total TL II 392 14 676 76 993 829 92 890

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KEY LESSONS LEARNED

• Regional diversity requires a country-specific approach

• Institutional challenges are as important as technical challenges

• Success will require institutional innovations not only in access to seed and markets, but in research collaboration, and in a systems approach

Lessons cont

• we should aim to accelerate the successes we have had; deliberately targeting the drought-prone areas

• explicitly address knowledge/gap or areas which hinder the design, implementation and scaling up of technologies - particularly effective seed systems

KEY ISSUES/PRIORITIES/OPPORTUNITIES

• Increased Seed Availability

– Improved access to breeder and Basic seed

– Sustainable seed production and marketing

– Increased awareness of improved varieties and their characteristics

– Price information of improved seed

• Crop Management

– Use of improved crop management technologies

– Moisture Conservation Technologies

• issues of: 'product identity' (how to distribute and market the varieties and seed in ways which make them distinctive, but easily recognizable)

• issues of 'moving lots of knowledge' along with the seed (so as to a create a set of informed users)

• Affordable Equipment

– Labor intensive activities eg shelling of gnuts

• Capacity Building

– training in quality seed production

• Engaging Policy Makers

– lengthy variety release process

– lack of grading and standards for tropical legume grains

– lack of incentive for private investment in seed production

– decline in investment in agricultural research and development

we should aim to

• accelerate the successes we have had; including use of tools from TL1 to speed up variety development.

• explicitly address knowledge/gap areas which hinder the design, implementation and scaling up of technology adoption esp. effective seed systems

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THANK YOU