Executive summary
- Authors: Chris Ojiewo, Jean Claude Rubyogo, John Wesonga, Zewdie Bishaw, Mathew Abang and Solomon Gelalcha
- Main Title: Mainstreaming Efficient Legume Seed Systems in Eastern Africa , pp 11-11
- Publication Date: April 2019
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/92e1e759-en
- Language: English
Legumes are important components of sustainable farming systems. They are useful to diversify and intensify cropping systems as double, catch, relay and intercrops; fix ‘free’ nitrogen to soils from the atmosphere and improve soil health that boost cereal crop yields; act as rotation crops for breaking disease and pest cycles; increase and diversify smallholder incomes (and hence buffer them from the effects of price, pest and climate-related production fluctuations); enhance quality of household diets because of their higher protein and micro-nutrient content compared with starch-based staple cereal crops; and provide good sources of animal feed (high protein crop residues and byproducts) and low carbon footprint, mitigating climate change.
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