Cowpea Atlas Project

From the August 2024 Newsletter

 

Led by Dr. Ousmane Coulibaly, CERAAS/ISRA

Cowpea is one of the most important seed legumes in the arid and semi-arid zones of Africa with considerable economic, nutritional, and agronomic benefits.

Cowpea has also a huge potential in terms of derived products and utilization (canned, whole and decorticated flour, infant food), which is still largely untapped in the sub-region. The factors constraining the diversification of cowpea utilization across agro-ecological zones in the sub-region are poorly documented, limiting value addition in cowpea value chains. In addition, cowpea production and marketing systems are constrained by social, cultural and economic factors, which need to be identified and tackled to enable farmers to take advantage of existing national and export markets.

The global objective of the project was to establish an inclusive and sustainable agricultural-led economic growth through the identification of sociocultural and/or economic motivators and/or barriers to cowpea utilization at various stages and scales within production and market systems in Benin, Nigeria, Niger and Senegal. These countries cover a spectrum of diversity in agro-ecological zones, cowpea production and market systems in West Africa.

Click the link below to read the project achievements and complete final technical report.

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