www.iita.org TROPICAL LEGUMES III Objective 6: Developing Sustainable and Impact-Oriented Legume Seed Systems for Smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia L.O. Omoigui, T. Iloman, and A.Y. Kamara. Presented at the TL III meeting held in Livingstone, Zambia 3 to 4 March, 2016
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TROPICAL LEGUMES III
Objective 6: Developing Sustainable and
Impact-Oriented Legume Seed Systems for
Smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
L.O. Omoigui, T. Iloman, and A.Y. Kamara.
Presented at the TL III meeting held in Livingstone, Zambia 3 to 4 March, 2016
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In-Country Launch/Work Plan for 2016
A multi-stakeholder workshop was convened at IITA Kano,
Nigeria on 15th February 2016 to concretize implementation of
project activities for 2016 cropping season
The workshop was attended by scientists from IITA, ICRISAT,
ABU/IAR, BUK, UAM, FUDMA, Directors/extension officers of
the focusing State ADPs, NGOs, Seed Companies, other
development partners (USAID cowpea upscaling, SG2000-Nigeria,
cowpea and groundnut grower associations as well as other
stakeholders along the cowpea and groundnut value chains. A total
of 34 (m:31; f:3) participants attended the workshop
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Participants that attended the multi-stakeholders workshop
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Presentation of Project Objectives and Plenary Feedback
Each objective leader for objective 1,
2, 3 and 6 presented information on
what each objective seeks to achieve
and the activities that need to be
undertaken. Brief plenary discussions
were held to clarify each objective
and raise any issue that need to be
considered to effectively implement
each project objective.
Discussion of Objective-based Activity Plan in the Breakout Groups
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milestone Work plan/remarks Time line
One multi-stakeholder
platform established for
cowpea and Groundnut
Existing multi-stakeholder platform will be
strengthened and expanded to accommodate more
partners along the cowpea and groundnut value
chain. Partners will include:
- ADPs of focusing States: (KNARDA, JARDA,
UAM (Leader Cp), USAID Cowpea Scaling
Project, N2Africa, NGOs: (Green Sahel, WOFAN),
Seed Companies (Greenspore, Maina Seeds, Jukur
Seed, Cowpea Marketers Association and
Community Based-Seed Organization (CBO)
April/May to plan for rainy
season activities
November/December to plan
for dry season activities
Platform members
trained in seed
production and business
management Gnut:
2500, Cp: 800)
Three training workshop will be conducted:
i) improve production practices in legumes
ii) harvest and postharvest handling
iii) marketing & business management
KNARDA, BSADP, JARDA, KTARDA & Green
Sahel
KNARDA, JARDA & BNARDA will train 300,
300 and 200 participants, respectively, for cowpea