TLII Bulletin of Tropical Legumes, Issue 23
Issue 23 of the Bulletin of Tropical Legumes, a monthly publication of the Tropical Legumes II project. This issue reports on activities and highlights progress in 2014 with a special focus on women groundnut seed producers and processors in Niger.
Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives: Following the Chickpea Value Chain in Ethiopia
Brief overview of recent developments in chickpea production in Ethiopia. Reports on farmers’ shift, within a five-year period, to chickpea production in response to global market demands.
Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives: Following the Chickpea Value Chain in Ethiopia
Brief overview of recent developments in chickpea production in Ethiopia. Reports on farmers’ shift, within a five-year period, to chickpea production in response to global market demands.
Chickpea Baseline and Early Adoption Surveys in South Asia: Insights from TL-II (Phase-I) Project – Synthesis Report
Report documenting the rapid strides made between 2007 and 2010 in taking new chickpea varieties to Central and South Indian farmers through farmer preferred varietal selection followed by the production and supply of seeds.
Four Seasons of Learning and Engaging Smallholder Farmers: Progress of Phase 1
Book-length report published at the end of the TLII project’s first phase (2007–2011) to document the lessons learned across the 10 target countries. Chapters report on experiences with specific grain legumes in specific regions.
Phosphorus and Nitrogen fertilization of soybean in the Nigerian Savanna
The objective of this research was to determine the interactive effect of N and P on soybean productivity in the northern Guinea and Sudan savannas of northeast Nigeria. The results suggest that N fertilizer is not critical for soybean production in this area.
Lessons from Two Years of Tropical Legumes II: Second Annual Review and Planning Meeting 16–20 November 2009, Bamako, Mali
Lessons from two years of the Tropical Legumes II Project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), which aims to bring about significant increases in the productivity and production of tropical legumes to improve farmers’ income, nutrition quality, and livelihoods in the drought-prone areas of SSA and South SA.
