Improving Farmers Livelihoods Through the Scaling-Up of Legume Based Soil Fertility Restoration Technologies

Published on 17 July 2012

Research Areas

Soils

Countries

Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

Timeline

Start Date: 1 June 2011 | End Date: 31 May 2012

Overview

The main objective of this project is to scale up promising legume based technologies identified during phase I to increase and sustain land productivity in East Africa farming systems for improved livelihoods. 

Four specific objectives:

• To enhance the role of legumes in soil fertility restoration;
• To identify market channels, constraints and opportunities for increasing farmers access to the national, regional and international grain legume markets;
• To build the capacity of smallholder farmers and other stakeholders on legume technologies;
• To scale best-bet legume soil fertility enhancing technologies, market and agroenterprise options

Tags

Africa, agroenterprise, Legume, livelihoods, market access, Soils