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This program will apply crop improvement and related high-priority value-chain interventions to maximize the benefits that grain legumes offer to smallholder farmers, especially women. The program aims to increase their incomes, secure their food supplies, improve their nutrition, and sustainably intensify farming systems by overcoming past challenges and constraints.
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This program will apply crop improvement and related high-priority value-chain interventions to maximize the benefits that grain legumes offer to smallholder farmers, especially women. The program aims to increase their incomes, secure their food supplies, improve their nutrition, and sustainably intensify farming systems by overcoming past challenges and constraints. Research will focus on conserving genetic resources, developing novel breeding methods, accelerating the development of more productive and nutritious cultivars, promoting crop and pest management practices, developing and facilitating efficient legume seed production and delivery systems for smallholder farmers, and enhancing value chain benefits for the poor.
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Lead Center
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ICRISAT
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Major Partners
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CIAT, ICARDA, and IITA, and six others who have complementary grain legume research-for-development (R4D) efforts: GCP, EMBRAPA, EIAR, ICAR, GDAR, and USA Dry Grain Pulses CRSP.
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Revised proposal was approved with conditions by Fund Council at its 7th meeting on March 7-8, 2012. A subsequent revised proposal (dtd. August 15, 2012) was prepared and is available below.
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Budget
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US $ 139.1 million
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Website
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forthcoming |
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Supporting Documents
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