DRC Team

Participatory matrix scoring

Pairwise ranking

Context scores

Legume option attributes_Function Legume nameFoodFeedIncome Erosion controlFuel Soil fertility Total score Common bean Groundnuts Soybean Pigeon pea Mucuna Lablab cv xx Desmodium Calliandra Sesbania  Lablab,  Pigeon pea,  Groundnut,  Soybean and  Common bean are promising legumes

Legume option attributes_Constraints Legume nameLandLabourCapital Inputs and services Knowle dge and skillsWater Market sTotal Common bean Groundnuts Soybean Pigeon pea Mucuna Lablab cv xx Desmodium Calliandra Sesbania  Groundnuts, soybean and common bean have high level of constraint  Pigeon pea lowest level of constraint followed by Lablab

Propositions for improvement of the FCD page 8: need to be open, no species added. But it is not clear its usefulness. Page 9 (table): List of constraints should not be open but match the constraints in the context scoring Need to add boxes for recording the scoring: pages 2, 3, The secondary functions are not included page 10: the pairwise of constraints does not come into the spreadsheet. Instead there is pairwise of functions.

Area of Intervention  Limited access to quality seed and fertilizer, high labor cost, not organized market, pest and diseases, land tenure system Work with the HumidTropics R4D platform to organize farmers into groups/cooperatives for collective marketing. - Training Expand pest resistant beans and soybean varieties tested last season: - more farmers coverage - seed multiplication

Area of Intervention  Low productivity of common bean Climbing beans options with source of stakes production: introduction of gliricidia, calliandra or Leucaena (Mushinga) Intermediate measures: using pennisetum/grevillea as stake while waiting for calliandra (quick assessment of cost effectiveness of the two options). - Demonstration plot (very simple and include as many farmers as possible)

Planning output 2 Expand pest resistant beans and soybean varieties tested last season: - more farmers coverage Trials (8) in Bushumba: Treatment 1: farmer practice Treatment 2: pest resistant common bean Treatment 3: improved soybean farmer field day (open to other farmers associations) - seed multiplication plot (2)

Planning output2 For Mushinga: Climbing beans options Treatment 1: local variety Treatment 2: climbing pest resistant variety + Pennisetum or grevillea with caliandra hedgerows