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Enhancing Nutritional Value and Marketability of Beans through Research and Strengthening Key Value Chain Stakeholders in Uganda and Rwanda

Agriculture in East Africa is characterized by women and men working in small scale, rainfed production, averaging 2 hectares per household (FAO 2006). Erratic bimodal rainfall […]

Expanding Pulse Supply and Demand in Africa and Latin America: Identifying Constraints and New Strategies

Angola: Common beans and cowpeas are important crops for smallholder farmers in Angola, with approximately 36% of households in a recent survey indicating that common beans […]

Enhancing the Utilization and Marketability of Sorghum and Pearl Millet through Improvement in Grain Quality, Processing Procedures and Technology Transfer to the Poultry Industry

The strategy for this project thus far has been to assemble a team of U.S. and host country collaborators to focus on educational programs, promotional programs, […]

Product and Market Development for Sorghum and Millet in Southern Africa and Central America

This project is integrated with food science, plant improvement, and marketing projects in East Africa, West Africa and Central America to improve components of the supply […]

Development of the Input and Product Markets in West Africa for Sorghum and Millet

Over the next two years the focus will be on documenting the technology-marketing project effects and scaling them up principally in Mali and Niger. The project […]

  • Start Date: 2008
  • End Date: 2012
  • Project Code: PRF 103
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Product and Market Development for Sorghum and Pearl Millet in West Africa

The principal goal of this project is to expand markets in West Africa for sorghum and millet through working with NARS scientists/technologists on processing of the […]

  • Start Date: 2008
  • End Date: 2012
  • Project Code: PRF 102
  • Lead University:

Market Development in Support of Sorghum and Millet Farmers in Tanzania and Zambia

Improving the income and food security of small-scale sorghum and millet farmers in Zambia and Tanzania through the identification of new market opportunities and related constraints […]

Building a Sustainable Infrastructure for the Product Development and Food Entrepreneur/ Industry Technical Support: A Strategy to promote increased use of Sorghum and Millet in East Africa

Sorghum and millet are ideal crops for many parts of Africa. Maize, however, is favored by many as a food source; farmers thus grow Maize even […]

Contracting Out of Poverty in Peru: Some Experimental Approaches

The research aims to help in the design of new institutional mechanisms that will favor the inclusion of smallholders and link them to dynamic markets through […]

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