Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash, 1st ed. 2020 A Renaissance within Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 1. A Brief Overview of Smallholder Farmers' Access To Seed Of Improved Legume Varieties.- Chapter 2. Impact Stories And Testimonies From Diverse Actors In Groundnut Value Chain In Tanzania.- Chapter 3. Common Bean Value Chain Actors Share Their Feeling About TL Projects In Tanzania.- Chapter 4. Enthusiasm Of Actors Within The Groundnut Value Chain Sharing Impact Stories In Uganda.- 5. Empowered Communities Tell Their Own Stories From Common Bean Production In Uganda.- 6. Breakthroughs In Groundnut Production Communities In Nigeria.- 7. Women At The Center Of Cowpea Value Chain Development In Nigeria.- 8. Better-Off Women Boosting Groundnut Business In Ghana.- 9. Concluding Remarks: The Tropical Legumes Projects Empowered Communities In A Wide Variety Of Assets.

Dr Essegbemon Akpo is Seed Systems scientist with expertise in plant production, seed systems, innovation studies, participatory action research, and multi-stakeholder processes. He graduated from Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His 15 years experiences in agricultural research for development covered improved seed access facilitation for smallholder farmers, connection between biophysical, social and institutional landscapes, participatory technology development, innovation platform support, capacity building for farmers’ organizations. He earned several academic awards that permitted him to pursue graduate studies (Research grant within the Convergence of Science Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Systems (CoS-SIS) in 2008, Research grant as part of the Convergence of Science for better Management of Crops and Soils (CoS) Project- DGIS in 2005, Research grant as part of the Cowpea Project, Bénin, NWO-FAO in 2003). Dr Akpo has authored over 15 publications including peer-review papers, books and conferences papers.

Dr. Chris Ojiewo graduated from Okayama University, Japan. He is a Senior Scientist in Legume Breeding, Global Co-coordinator of Tropical Legumes III, HOPEII and AVISA projects (funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Cluster of Activities Leader on Science of Scaling Seed Technologies in the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals and Theme Leader of Seed Systems in the Global Research Program on Genetic Gains, ICRISAT. He has more than 60 peer reviewed international publications and has delivered numerous oral and posters presentations in numerous international meetings. Dr Ojiewo’s research work focusses on basic, applied, and adaptive research and development activities aimed at raising farm productivity, nutrition and income security for resource-poor smallholder farm households, especially women and youth in rural and peri-urban semi-arid tropics. With expertise in plant breeding ands