Contributions

Crops	Countries	Breeding priorities	NPV US$ million	IRR %
BCR
West Africa
Sorghum	Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso	Early maturing varieties and hybrids with tolerance to drought; resistance to Striga; tolerance of stem borer/ midge	289-1555	76-130	5-23
Groundnut	Nigeria, Mali	Drought-tolerant, short-duration, rosette and early- and late-leaf spot-resistant varieties	52-173	40-49	6-21
Soybean	Nigeria	Drought-tolerant, disease-resistant varieties	43-58	53-58	14-16
Cowpea	Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso	Insect-resistant lines, drought-tolerant, low P-tolerant Striga-resistant and disease-resistant varieties	123-356	44-57	6-16
Pearl millet	Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso	Early-maturing, drought-tolerant, dual-purpose hybrid parents/cultivars with high and stable yields with disease resistance (downy mildew and blast)	253-450	50-64	6-14
East & Southern Africa
Sorghum	Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda	Early maturing varieties/hybrids, tolerant to drought; resistant to Striga; tolerant of stem borer/midge	158-468	83-129	8-28
Pigeonpea	Malawi	Cleisto varieties, resistant to Fusarium wilt and Cercospora leaf spot, photo-insensitive, drought-tolerant, and intercropping-compatible varieties	4-33	32-62	6-15
Groundnut	Malawi, Tanzania	Drought-tolerant/resistant variety and short-duration varieties	20-49	32-63	5-14
Chickpea	Ethiopia	Varieties resistant to Ascochyta blight and Fusarium root rot and drought/heat-tolerant varieties	13-17	40-50	6-12
Soybean	Zambia	Drought-tolerant and disease-resistant varieties	10-15	36	8-9
Cowpea	Mozambique	Drought-tolerant varieties and insect-resistant lines	12-14	28-31	6-8
Finger millet	Ethiopia	Terminal drought-tolerant, blast, downy mildew and Striga resistant varieties	8	26	5
South Asia
Chickpea	India, Myanmar	Varieties resistant to Fusarium root rot and Botrytis grey mold, herbicide/drought/heat tolerant varieties	273-499	82-104	9-17
Pigeonpea	India	Varieties resistant to Fusarium wilt and Cercospora leaf spot, and tolerant of pod borers, pod fly and pod bugs	65-258	58-91	5-16
Lentil	India	Varieties tolerant of drought and herbicide and resistant to wilt, root rot and Stemphylium blight	16-80	37-62	5-15
Pearl millet	India	Early-maturing, drought-tolerant and disease resistant (downy mildew and blast) hybrids	180-310	54-57	7-10
Groundnut	India, Myanmar	Varieties resistant to foliar fungal disease, bud necrosis and soil-borne diseases	66-105	39-56	8-10
Finger millet	India	Terminal drought tolerant and blast resistant varieties	16-21	28-40	4-6
Sorghum	India	Varieties and hybrids that are early-maturing and tolerant of drought and stem borer/ midge	74	65	5

1.2 Goals, objectives and targets

CRP Goal

The overall goal of the Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals CRP is to concurrently achieve the outcomes of:

Expanded, resilient and inclusive production, value addition, trading and consumption of nutritious grain legumes and dryland cereals in target countries; and

Improved capacity and inclusivity of agri-food system stakeholders to collaboratively develop innovations that respond to the needs of women, men and youth in GLDC-based livelihoods and value chains.

These two end-of-program outcomes will contribute positively to the higher-order SRF outcomes of reduced poverty and improved food security, nutritional security for health, and improved natural resource systems and ecosystems services.

Targets

The SRF was designed to illustrate impact of agricultural R4D by 2030; it evaluates system-wide anticipated achievements towards the SDGs. GLDC leverages and encourages enabling environments to take advantage of policy, technology and partnerships to accelerate adoption of profitable technologies by farmers.

GLDC targets are calculated⁶² based on cost per beneficiary and weighted contributions across the five GLDC flagships for each SLO target (Table 5). SLO1 was calculated at the expected rates GLDC can improve incomes above the US$1.90/day threshold. A means to improve rural livelihoods is by improving production and for each 1% increase in yields there is a corresponding 0.8% reduction in poverty⁶³. In the case of households adopting improved varieties, the cost is ~US$15 per household from the investment made in GLDC. In the case of improved varieties, the estimated ROI by 2022 is 10:1. This is based on annual increases in productivity and discount factors for each target country and crop. This intervention will translate into an increase in value of production of US$1.3 billion by 2022 over a baseline productivity growth estimated at 0.75%.

Many cropping systems for the drylands are grown in marginal lands that will be disproportionately impacted by climate change. Grain legumes, as companion crops to cereals, can increase soil health through nitrogen fixation – a distinguishing feature of GLDC within the CGIAR portfolio. GLDC will work with N2Africa and other large initiatives to further enhance nitrogen fixation contribution to farming systems. Fixing nitrogen and sequestering carbon in the drylands directly contributes to SLO3.