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

This book shares impact stories – testimonies from various value chain actors who have been part of the Tropical Legumes projects, over the past twelve years. The projects developed improved cultivars of common bean, cowpea, chickpea and groundnut (but also soya bean and pigeon pea cultivars in its initial phases) and delivers their seed to smallholder farmers. National agricultural research institutes, knowledge brokering organizations, NGOs, public and private seed companies, agro-dealers, individual seed entrepreneurs, farm-implement makers, farmer cooperatives, farmer groups, individual men and women farmers, middlemen, processors, traders and consumers were all involved in this project, and as such this book provides valuable insights for development workers, technical staff, and project managers.