Schlüsselwörter
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Bohnen, Phaseolus vulgaris, Forschung, Forschungspartnerschaft, Züchtung, Ausbildung, Ostafrika, Saatgut, Saatgutproduktion, Produktionstechnologie, Markt, Exportmarkt, Zentralafrika, CIAT (Centro Internacional de agricultura Tropical),
Agronomie
Ernährung
Landwirtschaftliche Produktivität und Technologie
Beziehungen zum Ausland
Landwirtschaft
PABRA
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Kurzbeschreibung
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The Pan-African Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) targets the improvement of the bean crop for the benefit of Africa's rural and urban poor, as well as capitalizing on its value as a potential entry point for a learning alliance on community development.
More than 100 million people consume beans in the PABRA region and are potential beneficiaries. Beans are a typical commodity of the poor, produced mostly by women. During the next phase of PABRA, the partners expect to reach at least 10 million rural people in at least 12 countries with new and existing technologies. Many poor rural and urban dwellers will benefit from more supplies of this low-cost and high-protein food, attractive new varieties will increase income for small-scale producers, and the health of women and children will benefit from varieties containing higher levels of zinc and iron (thus contributing to the Millenium Development Goals with special focus on MDG 1 and 3).
PABRA, with its efficiencies derived from a multi-institutional alliance and close regional collaboration, has led to considerable impact in Eastern and Southern Africa. Research results and technologies developed are shared among countries, avoiding unnecessary cost and duplication of efforts. Adoption by small farmers, mostly women, of new bean varieties and other technologies has enabled them to reduce crop losses due to diseases, pests and low soil fertility, improve their families' protein nutrition, avoid laborious gathering of wild vegetables in the dry season, and raise cash under their own control for household purchases, schooling and further investment in agriculture. To date, 245 varieties have been developed and released. In 2003 alone 1.25 million people were reached.
The current emphasis is as much upon investigating, with development partners, ways in which communities can best be encouraged and supported in building upon productive new technologies to innovate further. In the next phase, PABRA aims to accomplish the following: Complete the development and disseminate of a new generation of higher-yielding bean varieties (nutritional quality for domestic consumption, excellent market acceptance for income generation); Improve production and its reliability through better crop/soil/pest management by farmers; Achieve still wider impact by extending farmer access to new bean technologies to all main bean production areas in Africa; Improve and disseminate understanding of how communities in diverse situations can best achieve food security, income and other livelihood aspirations; Strengthen the capacity of NGOs and local agricultural service; strengthen the research sector (NARS, farmer research groups); Transfer further areas of technical responsibility from CIAT to the African-owned networks and national programmes.
A long-lasting commitment in such research activities is crucial as there is a) a constant risk of pests and diseases affecting existing and newly developed bean varieties, b) the need to maintain biodiversity and c) strengthening and taking advantage of the regional approach.
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Projektziele
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Improved nutrition, food security, income and community empowerment for poverty alleviation, and in a sustainable manner
3.2 Outcomes
"Increased utilization of bean-based technologies.
"Enhanced capacity of 25 villages / communities in the project's 3 pilot areas to plan and manage initiatives to meet their needs.
"Strengthened institutional and organizational capacity of PABRA, constituent sub-regional organizations and partners.
3.3 Outputs
"Five improved bean varieties rich in micronutrients (fe, zn or protein) and ten varieties tolerant to two or more major biotic and abiotic stresses
"Ten new environmentally friendly options developed for managing soil productivity (fertility), and bean pests and diseases
"Increased access to 10 new and 50 existing technologies (varietal and non- varietal) by at least 2 million households
"Increased knowledge and skills of groups and farmers from communities in pilot areas to manage better their resource, identify and develop agro-enterprises, better organize their communities and to link-up with rural service providers
"Increased skills of men and women to achieve gender equity at the community and household levels.
"Increased knowledge and skills of scientists and staff from NARIs, NGOs and rural service providers to effectively address clients' needs.
"Strengthened intra- and inter-network collaboration both within and outside of networks.
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