Sustainable Intensification of Maize and Legumes in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA SIMLESA)

SIMLESA aims at: Understanding constraints, opportunities, crop-livestock interactions, resource-use, technology preferences and market access farmers’ among farmers engaged in maize and legume production; developing productive, resilient and sustainable smallholder maize-legume cropping and innovation systems for local scaling out; Increasing a range of maize and legume varieties for use by smallholder farmers through  accelerated breeding, regional testing, release and availability of performance data; supporting the development of regional and local innovation systems and; Building capacity of NARS to increase efficiency of agricultural research today and in the future