Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative …...Feed the Future Food Security Innovation...
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Feed the Future Food Security Innovation Labs: Collaborative Research Programs
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for
Collaborative Research on Grain Legumes
Irvin Widders
Michigan State University
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Feed the Future Food Security Innovation Labs: Collaborative Research Programs
Grain Legumes are a strategic group of crops in USAID’s Feed the Future initiative.
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Grain Legumes have Multi-functional Roles
• Nutrient-dense staple foods
• Generate income as a profitable cash crops
• Increase sustainability of cropping systems (BNF)
• Enhance livelihoods of women
• Improve child growth, nutrition and health
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Feed the Future Food Security Innovation Labs: Collaborative Research Programs
• SO1. Advancing the Productivity Frontier for Grain Legumes
• SO2. Transforming Pulse Systems and Value Chains
• SO3. Enhancing Nutrition
• SO4. Improving Outcomes of Research and Capacity Building
Legume Innovation Lab Strategic Objectives (SOs) contribute to
Feed the Future R & D Priorities
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Game-changing technologies-
• Bruchid resistance in common bean varieties for Eastern Africa and Central America
• Improved Tepary bean varieties with drought and heat tolerance
• Enhanced biological nitrogen fixation in large-seeded common bean market classes
• Resistance traits to aphids, thrips and pod-sucking insects in cowpea discovered
SO1. Advancing the Productivity Frontier for Grain Legumes: To sustainably and substantively increase pulse productivity by improving plant adaptation to diverse agro-ecologies and reducing farmer vulnerability to climate change
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Game-changing technologies-
• Sustainable biological controls for integrated insect pest management in cowpea; ready for scale-up up in West Africa
• Diagnostic and decision support tools for improved soil fertility management in smallholder bean-maize systems, appropriate for low-literate farmers
SO1. Advancing the Productivity Frontier for Grain Legumes- To improve integrated management decision-making by smallholder farmers
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Game-changing technologies and knowledge-
• Increased value of grain legumes for the benefit of value-chain stakeholders through improved understanding of factors shaping consumption and identification of solutions to weak-links in production, marketing and distribution systems
SO2. Transforming Pulse Systems and Value Chains: To improve smallholder farmer connectivity to markets and and governance management of pulse value-chains by stakeholders
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Game-changing Knowledge-
• Understanding of role of bean and cowpea consumption on child growth, gut microbiome ecology, and gut health and immune function.
SO3. Enhancing Nutrition: To improve the nutritional quality of diets and enhance the nutritional and health status of the poor especially young children and women through the consumption of pulses/beans
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Feed the Future Food Security Innovation Labs: Collaborative Research Programs
West Africa- Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali Niger, Senegal
Eastern and Southern Africa- Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
Latin America and Caribbean- Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala and Ecuador
Target Regions and Countries Legume Innovation Lab
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Challenges to Achieving Impact
• Sustainable community-based seed systems for legumes to provide resource-poor farmers access to affordable quality seed of improved varieties
• Nutrition education to enhance consumer understanding of the nutitional value and health promoting role of grain legumes in diets of the poor, especially children and women
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Scaling-Up Initiatives by Legume Innovation Lab
• Community Seed Banks in Central America
• Dissemination of improved bean and cowpea varieties in West Africa and LAC
• Nutrition education to Mayan communities in Guatemala
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INNOVATION
LABS C O L L A B O R A T
I V E
RESEARCH
PROGRAMS
Contact Information
Irvin Widders, Director
Cynthia Donovan, Deputy Director
Legume Innovation Lab
Phone: (517) 355-4693
Email: [email protected]
www.legumelab.msu.edu/