Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash: A Renaissance within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa (A brief overview of smallholder farmers’ access to seed of improved legume varieties: Chapter 1 of 9)
Chapter 1 of a book that shares impact stories and testimonies from various value chain actors who were part of the Tropical Legumes projects over the course of 12 years.
Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash: A Renaissance within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa (Common bean value chain actors share their feeling about TL projects in Tanzania: Chapter 3 of 9)
Chapter 3 of a book that shares impact stories and testimonies from various value chain actors who were part of the Tropical Legumes projects over the course of 12 years.
Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash: A Renaissance within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa (Empowered communities tell their own stories from common bean production in Uganda: Chapter 5 of 9)
Chapter 5 of a book that shares impact stories and testimonies from various value chain actors who were part of the Tropical Legumes projects over the course of 12 years.
Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash: A Renaissance within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa (Concluding remarks – the Tropical Legumes Projects empowered communities in a wide variety of assets: Chapter 9 of 9)
Chapter 9 of a book that shares impact stories and testimonies from various value chain actors who were part of the Tropical Legumes projects over the course of 12 years.
Assessing the impact of the Tropical Legumes II & III project on common bean productivity, profitability and marketed surplus in the southern highlands of Tanzania
This report assesses the farm level utilization of improved common bean seed (i.e. improved varieties) in Tanzania and its impacts on bean yield, incomes, and marketed bean surplus.
Tropical Legumes project intervention and advancement of the common bean program of Ethiopia
This poster demonstrates how the Tropical Legumes initiatives improved the performance of Ethiopia’s common bean program and enhanced the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
Demand driven common bean variety development and promotion for enhanced productivity and production
This study provides an overview of Ethiopia’s common bean research program, which aims to develop in-demand bean varieties for enhanced adoption, improve food and nutrition security, and generate higher incomes for smallholder farmers.
A decade of Tropical Legumes projects: Development and adoption of improved varieties, creation of market‐demand to benefit smallholder farmers and empowerment of national programmes in sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia
This article highlights 12 years (2007–2019) of research, achievements, lessons learned, challenges and gaps in discovery‐to‐delivery research in legumes emanating from three projects, collectively called Tropical Legumes (TL) with a total investment of about US$ 67 million funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Fine-mapping of angular leaf spot resistance gene Phg-2 in common bean and development of molecular breeding tools
This study used next-generation sequencing datasets to design new SNP-based molecular markers to identify angular leaf spot (ALS) resistance in common bean.
Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping for intermittent drought tolerance in BRB 191 × SEQ 1027 Andean Intragene cross recombinant inbred line population of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
This article presents the results of a study to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) underlying drought tolerance in common bean.
