DFID
The Department for International Development (DFID) is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to reduce extreme poverty. DFID's work aims to bring people out of poverty through programmes that settle conflicts, increase trade and improve health and education.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The US$20 million Tropical Legume Improvement II Project aims to improve the livelihoods of more than 300 million smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa through the improvement of crop legume productivity. It involves 3 CGIAR centres: CIAT (PABRA), ICRISAT and IITA. These Centres are working with the national agricultural research systems (NARS), NGOs and Government agencies of 8 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria and Tanzania). The project aims to: (i) exploit the improved germplasm that already exists by using "fast track" evaluation and seed production; (ii) encourage farmer-participatory varietal selection; (iii) develop improved crop cultivars by combining conventional plant breeding with modern breeding tools and techniques; and (iv) strengthen national programmes' capacity for plant breeding.

The McKnight Foundation
The McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Programme seeks to increase food security in developing countries. The programme supports agricultural research aimed at improving food production and the nutritional content of crops important to the developing world.

SDC
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is organised and funded by the Swiss government and operates by financing programmes both directly, and in partnership with other agencies to countries around the world.

SABRN, Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute, P.O. Box 6247, Kampala, Uganda
Tel +256-414-567670, fax +256-414-567635, email r.chirwa@cgiar.org

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