Four Seasons of Learning and Engaging Smallholder Farmers - icrisat

Impact assessment and enhancement
Phase II will also be the opportunity to expand the preliminary impact work initiated in phase I, and to start
to quantify the benefits in terms of welfare and yield stability. Research and development interventions to
improve market coordination along the value chain will help reduce problems identified in the baseline
studies that reduce farmers’ access to profitable markets and could enhance incomes from legumes. For
example, value chain actors need to access information and skills on improved post harvest handling
practices that add value (such as cleaning, sort, grading, and standardization) -- to reduce transaction
costs. Such interventions should be guided by focused research to be able to weigh the chances and
degree of success and contribution it will make before huge sums of money are invested.
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Engaging Smallholder Farmers | Tropical Legumes II Project