Grain Legumes Value for Money Proposition CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food secure future Theory of Change Timelines and relaonships between research results, products and outcomes is illustrated graphically. Partners Led by ICRISAT with CIAT, ICARDA and IITA in partnership with: Generaon Challenge Program (GCP) Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporaon (EMBRAPA) Ethiopian Instute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Turkish General Directorate of Agricultural Research (GDAR) Feed the Future Innovaon Lab for Collaborave Research on Grain Legumes Feed the Future Innovaon Lab for Collaborave Research on Peanut and Mycotoxin Naonal agricultural research and extension systems in Africa, Asia and Lan America Naonal and internaonal public and private sector research and development partners Results Adopon of short duraon chickpea in Andhra Pradesh, India. Photo: Pooran Gaur, ICRISAT Legumes provide high quality, protein rich food with a uniquely low environmental impact. The dietary benefits of major components of the seeds are complemented by micronutrients and other bioacve compounds. Legumes fetch good prices yet tend to be farmed on the least producve land (which they enrich), and thus they can benefit resource poor farmers. The CRP Grain Legumes gathers researchers working on the major legume crops of the developing world who can benefit from the common biology and shared market systems. This program represents a significant component of the worlds research on these systems. One ‘product line’ relates to the possibility of developing variees, agronomic pracce, and market systems that can replace those of rice fallow. This would represent de novo producvity and has the potenal to reach in excess of 2 M ha in SSEA alone. Research proposion Gender The gender strategy includes three main elements: SLO Drought resistant cowpeas that include resistance to parasic weeds have been released in Tanzania and Burkina Faso. Improved short- duraon and drought tolerant groundnut variees were introduced into 12 target countries. Six kabuli chickpea and four lenl variees, resistant to Ascochyta blight and amenable to machine harvest have been released; the Desi variety JG 14 yielded 30% higher than the control in on-farm tests. Early maturing lenl variees, one each in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and India have been released for culvaon. Heat-tolerant culvar upscaling includes the establishment of village seed hubs for quality assured seed distribuon. Lessons Challenges 1. External factors have large consequences for the adopon of technologies, and this is heterogeneous by locaon. 2. Data on the adopon of technologies is difficult to collect, as is the aribuon of behavioral change to specific causes within, or external to, the CRP. Opportunies 1. Comparave genomics in legumes is especially powerful because these diverged within the last 55 million years and the gene content and order is very conservave. Genome sequence data is available or being generated. 2. Legumes share features of agronomy (eg place in rotaons). 3. Legume seed systems are similar, the seeds are typically quite large and mulplicaon rates are low Key contacts Product Line Coordinators PL1 - Drought & low-P tolerant common bean, cowpea & soybean Dr Steve Beebe (CIAT) [email protected] PL2 - Heat tolerant chickpea, common bean, faba bean and lenl Dr Michel Ghanem (ICARDA) [email protected] PL3 - Short-duraon, drought tolerant & aflatoxin-free groundnut Dr Patrick Okori (ICRISAT- Malawi) [email protected] PL4 - High N-fixing chickpea, common bean, faba bean &soybean Dr SK Chaturvedi (IIPR, Kanpur) [email protected] PL5 - Insect-smart chickpea, cowpea, & pigeonpea prod. systems Dr Manuele Tamo (IITA) [email protected] PL6 - Extra-early maturing chickpea and lenl variees Dr Shiv Kumar Argawal (ICARDA) [email protected] PL7 - Herbicide tolerant machine-harvestable chickpea, faba bean and lenl variees Dr Pooran Gaur (ICRISAT - India) [email protected] PL8 - Pigeonpea hybrid and management pracces Dr Rajeev Varshney (ICRISAT - India) [email protected] Gender Specialist Dr Chanda Goodrich [email protected] Communicaon Manager Sash Nagaraji [email protected] Director Dr Noel Ellis [email protected] Breeder partnership for lenl in Bangladesh. Photo: Shiv Kumar Agrawal, ICARDA LED BY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH and public and private institutes and organizations, governments, and farmers worldwide Science with a human face This document is licensed for use under a Creave Commons Aribuon – Non commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License Nutrion & Health Food Security Improved nutrion & health Enhanced env. sustainability Reduced rural poverty Producvity Income Environment Improved food security Strategic research to idenfy targets with a gender specific outcome. Gender research analyses the impact of gender on CRP outputs. Gender acons steps to aend to internal gender issues. October 2013