Supporting smallholder farmers’ decisions on legume use in East Africa – the LegumeCHOICE approach

Abstract

East African farming systems are diverse but are generally characterized by mixed croplivestock production with a mix of cereals, roots, legumes, livestock and tree crops. Legumes offer many livelihood and natural resource management benefits but are generally underutilized in smallholder systems especially in the case of tree and forage legumes. Through a research for development project called LegumeCHOICE we developed a classification of multipurpose legumes and defined the various farm functions that each class and species fulfilled using an expert scoring system. We went on to develop a simple decision support tool based on this work to help decision makers prioritize different legume types to meet expressed needs of smallholders in East Africa when considering legume interventions.

Published in

Aspects of Applied Biology
2018, number: 138, pages: 85-92 Title: Advances in Legume Science and Practice
Publisher: Association of Applied Biologists

Conference

Association of Applied Biologists, Advances in Legume Science and Practice, 21-22 March 2018 Glasgow

SLU Authors

• Muoni, Tarirai

  • Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
  • World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

UKÄ Subject classification

Agricultural Science


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/98505