Legume CHOICE Tool Development meeting 15-16 Sept 2016, Nairobi, Kenya

Legume CHOICE tool development meeting 15-16 Sept, Nairobi

Meeting objectives

• To extend the list of legumes included in the Legume CHOICE tool and to score them for contribution to different functions
• To develop agro-ecological filter to help to target legumes to agro-ecological niches
• To plan dissemination strategy for tool

Programme

Day 1 Sept 15

Time	Topic	Notes	Responsible
09:00	Welcome and Introductions		Alan
09:15	Refresher on Legume CHOICE tool	Group work - groups brainstorm to remind themselves of tool components leading to development of 5 minute pitch on what the tool does	Alan
10:00	Pitches plus presentation		Alan
10:20	Coffee/tea
10:40	Looking ahead to programme		Alan
10:45	Literature work on legume functions - presentation	Tarirai presents his work on validating legume function scores from literature	Tarirai
11:00	Others present evidence collected	Other participants present material they have generated through homework exercises - outputs passed to Tarirai	All
11:30	Agree on extended list of legume options - new list	Review existing list of legume options and discuss which species we need to add - in country groups and then in plenary	Ingrid
12:00	Scoring of legume functions	Three parallel groups with mixed expertise embark on group work - assign scores to different functions for agreed list of species - new version of spreadsheet - extend list of legume options - new list - agree database structure for Tarirai's literature-based database	Alan
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Scoring continued
15:00	Stock take	Groups share the results of their scoring and discuss discrepancies	Alan
15:30	Tea/coffee
15:45	Scoring continued - final version
16:45	Wrap up discussion		Generose
17:00	End of Day 1

Day 2 - Sept 16

Time	Topic	Notes	Responsible
09:00	Summary of Day 1		Ingrid
09:15	Agro-ecological filter - background	Alan presents rationale on agro-ecological filter and recaps progress so far	Alan
09:30	Existing tools - SoFT and Lexsys	Resource persons summarize existing approaches: SoFT presentation, Lexsys presentation	Diriba Geleti, Irene Okeyo
10:15	Coffee/Tea
10:30	Defining the Legume CHOICE agro-ecological filter	Divide into 2 groups and develop ideas for the structure of an agro-ecological filter - summary here	Generose
12:00	Reporting back
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Consensus and next steps for agro-ecological filter	Notes on next steps	Alan
14:00	Dissemination strategy - overview		Generose
14:15	Group work to devise strategy for further development and use of the tool	Notes on dissemination	Alan
15:15	tea/coffee
15:30	Reporting back and synthesis of next steps	Notes on follow up tasks	Alan
16:30	Any other issues		Alan
17:00	End

Participant list

Name	Affiliation	Expertise	Confirmed?	Location	Notes
Endalkachew Wolde Meskel	ILRI-N2Africa	grain legumes, nitrogen fixation		Addis
Tamene Temesgen	ILRI	grain legumes		Addis
Irene Okeyo	ICRAF	tree legumes		Nairobi
Tarirai Muoni	ILRI	legume agronomy		Nairobi
Diriba Geleti	EIAR	forages		Addis
Ingrid Oborn	ICRAF/SLU	legume agronomy, systems		Bogor	Costs covered from other sources
Alan Duncan	ILRI	livestock feeding, systems	y	UK
Andrew Barnes	SRUC	farmer behaviour		UK	Flights covered from other sources
Peter Thorne	ILRI-Africa RISING	systems intensification, tool development		UK
Maurice Shaluli	KALRO	legume agronomy		Kisumu, Kenya
Tadesse Birhanu	OARI	grain legumes		Addis
Jean Walangulu	Catholic University of Bukavu	grain legumes		Bukavu, DRC
Peter Ebanyat	IITA-N2Africa	grain legumes		Kampala
Generose Nziguheba	IITA	agronomy		Nairobi
Mulu London	IITA	agronomy		Bukavu
Jonathan Mariuki	ICRAF	tree legumes		Nairobi

Skills needed among participants

Biology of legumes:

grain legumes - Endalkachew Wolde Meskel, Tamene Temesgen, tree legumes - Irene Okeyo forage legumes - Diriba Geleti, Solomon Mengistu, Jean Hanson cover legumes

Legume agronomy - Christine Watson (SRUC), Ingrid

Livestock feeding - Alan Duncan

Human nutrition - someone from Bioversity?

Adoption/farmer behaviour - Andrew Barnes

Tool development/systems - Peter Thorne