Pre-Cooked Beans for Improving Food and Nutrition Security and Income Generation in Kenya and Uganda
Beans are an important food crop that contributes to nutrition security, income, and employment in Kenya and Uganda. While beans are traditionally consumed with little processing, this project will promote value-added pre-cooked beans as a means to advance food security, income generation, and environmental conservation. The use of pre-cooked beans is expected to reduce cooking time, energy, and fuel use. Value-added processing offers great potential for improved nutrition, food security, reduced energy use, environmental conservation, employment opportunities, and overall economic development. The project's whole value chain approach will include research on sustainable models for -increasing production and supply of beans suitable for pre-cooked processing -developing and testing pre-cooked bean products -promoting pre-cooked beans through innovative public and private partnerships The research project is a partnership between the Kenya Agriculture Research Institute and Uganda's National Agriculture Research Organization.
Project ID
107842
Project Status
Completed
End Date
Duration
30 months
IDRC Officer
Jemimah Njuki
Total Funding
CA$ 2,583,434.00
Location
Kenya
Uganda
Programs
Agriculture and Food Security
Cultivate Africa's Future
Institution Country
Kenya
Project Leader
David Karanja
Institution
Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization
Institution Website
Institution Country
Uganda
Project Leader
Michael Ugen Adrogu
Institution
National Agricultural Research Organization
Institution Website
Outputs
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Accroître l’accès des femmes à des marchés ables grâce à la commercialisation collective Dossiers
Author(s): Nanyonjo, Grace, Aseete, Paul, Ugen, Michael A., Mugagga, Joseph Isaac, Katabalwa, Stanley Nkalubo Charles, Kabanyoro, Ruth Language: French |
Increasing women’s access to reliable markets through collective marketing Brief
While some household challenges emerged from collective marketing, the project enabled women to participate in male-dominated marketing activities and to benefit from the income generated. The project identified 65 mixed farmer groups and linked them to the Community Enterprise Development Organization (CEDO) which supplies bean seed on credit to farmer groups to produce grain on a contractual basis. Group marketing has been identified as one of the most viable ways of increasing women’s participation in agricultural marketing and improving their access to market information, as well as strengthening their bargaining power. Author(s): Nanyonjo, Grace, Aseete, Paul, Ugen, Michael A., Mugagga, Joseph Isaac, Katabalwa, Stanley Nkalubo Charles, Kabanyoro, Ruth Language: English |
Multi-funder initiative - Cultivate Africa's Future (CultiAF) : precooked beans for food, nutrition, and income in Kenya and Uganda Brief
The research team will test different supply models of bean/seed varieties for their suitability for precooking. Teams will work with farmer groups and contract farming, for their ability to supply the necessary volume of seed, and to benefit women smallholder farmers. The research will involve farmers’ federations in both Kenya and Uganda, and Smart Logistics, a private, women-owned company in Kenya. It will analyze the gender implications of the new technology to ensure that men, women and youth are fully integrated in the development of the precooked bean value chain. Author(s): Wrenmedia Language: English |
Precooked beans for food, nutrition, and income in Kenya and Uganda Brief
A ready-to-eat bean snack, bean flour, and easy-to-cook bean product have been developed through this successful project. The aim was to develop and promote precooked bean products to increase bean consumption, reduce time spent on cooking, and create more lucrative markets for bean farmers. A seed credit model (SCM) has supplied farmers with 71,810 kg of seed through four seasons of the project’s operation and supplied 880,595 kg for further seed and grain production. Two production facilities have been established; one in Kisumu (Kenya) and one in Mukono (Uganda). Consumer acceptance for precooked beans is 89.1%. Author(s): Wrenmedia Language: English |
Pre-cooked beans for improving food and nutrition security and income generation in Kenya and Uganda - final technical report Report
The precooked beans project aimed to increase affordable bean consumption, increase income, improve diets, and reduce cooking time, while creating a sustainable lucrative market for farmers. The project set up two grain production models; the Community Production and Marketing System (COPMAS) and the Collective Marketing Model (CMM) with Seed Credit. Also, two seed production models were set up to support seed production. The project directly or indirectly created employment for 24,615 people at production, aggregation and intermediate processor levels and successfully reached 52,802 farmers with information critical to bean production and group management, as well as tackling gender issues. Author(s): Ugen, Michael, Karanja, David, Birachi, Eliud, Katabalwa, Charles, Ouma, Joab, Mutuku, Rose Language: English |