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LEG4DEV conducts evidence-synthesis review of barriers, opportunities, and scaling options for high-quality legume seeds in sub-Saharan Africa
Isabel McLaughlin, Ciara Varley, Angahrad Johnston, Charles Spillane. 26th March 2024 Realising development impacts from scaling of legumes requires that smallholder farmers have affordable and reliable access to high-quality seeds of the legume crops they seek to grow, market and/or consume. Despite their many positive attributes for sustainability and nutrition, scaling of legumes is constrained…
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A Farmer as an Agent of Change
July 2023 In preparation for the growing season in Southern Highlands of Tanzania which is about to start, LEG4DEV PhD researcher Mukoma Kilakila (WUR) has been meeting with legume farmers in several villages during summer 2022 to discuss the potential of new technologies that could increase legume production at low cost and maximize farmers’ investment…
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LEG4DEV project researchers are identifying exciting legume research and disseminating to stakeholders via the LEG4DEV Twitter feed
To enable scaling of legume-based innovations all of the PhD researchers on the LEG4DEV are now scanning the research literature weekly to identify exciting and relevant legume based research papers which are of interest to the LEG4DEV project and all partners and stakeholders engaged in scaling of legumes for development outcomes. This approach fulfils two…
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