tli 2012: progress in the tropical legumes ii project (tlii)
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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
SEED PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
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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
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