From May 15, 1979

INTERIM PLANNING REPORT OF THE BEAN/COWPEA COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SUPPORT PROGRAM from DEPARTMENT OF CROP AND SOIL SCIENCES MICIIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY May 15, 1979 INTERIM PLANNING REPORT OF THE BEAN/COWPEA COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SUPPORT PROGRAM MAY 15, 1979 Page I. Authorization to Proceed with Planning 1 II. Determining Manifest Interest in Beans/Cowpeas. 1 III. Orientation Trips and Activities. 3 A. Visits to the University of Missouri and to USAID-Washington. B. Developing a Questionnaire Regarding Constraints. C. Visit to Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, CIAT and 4 ITTA. D. FAO Meeting on Limitations to Production of Pulses. 5 E. Cooperative Central American Program for the Improvement of Cultivated Food Crops. F. Annual Meeting of the Western Region 150 Bean Project. 6 G. Meetings of Covpea Workers. H. Planning the State-of-the-Art Book. IV. Determination of Constraints. 7 A. Deviations from Original Plan for Determining Constraints. B. Contributions of the Questionnaire Development and SOTA Development to Constraint Determination. C. Constraint Determination Using the Questionnaire. 8 D. Workshop on Constraints. V. DeteaLnation of Training Needs. 9 VI. Guide for Proposal Preparation. VII. Relationships of Farming Systems and Socio-tconomics to Beans 10 and Cowpeas. VIII. Integrating the Socio-economic Disciplines. 10 IX. Team Visits to Developing Countries. 11 X. Comnicating with Bean/Cowpea Institutions. 12 A. U.S. Institutions. B. LDC Institutions. 13 C. Building Acquaintances between LDC and U.S. Scientists. XI. Rmaining Planning Activities. 14 XI1. State-of-the-Art Book. 18 XIII. Coordination of Planning. 19 XIV. Need for Languat~o L.,pabllity. 20 APPENDICES Appendix I Letter from Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station to Title XII representatives of all U.S. institutions eligible to participate in Title XII programs. October, 1978. Appendix II.1 Report of visit to the Univcrsity of Missouri. October 23, 1978. Appendix 11.2 Missouri visit, Title XII discussions. October 23-24, 1978. Appendix 11.3 Visit and discussions with U.S./AID personnel in Washington, D.C. October 26-27, 1978. Appendix 11.4 Report of meeting in Washington, D.C. October 26-27, 1978. Appendix III Identification of constraints-questionnaire and interview. Appendix IV.l Report of visit to Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, CIAT, Chile. January 24 - February 3, 1979. Appendix IV.2 Report of visit to International Institute of Tropical Agriculture at Ibadan, Nigeria. February 13-15, 1979. Appendix V Brief report of the FAO meeting on limitations to production of pulses in the Caribbean and Central America-Panama, in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic. February 19-23, 1979. Appendix VI Report of attendance at the Programs Cooperativo Centro americano para el Mejoramiento de Cultivos Alementicios XXV 'nnual Reunion in Teguciga)pa, Honduras. March 19-23, 1979. Appendix VII A proposed outline for the state-of-the-art (SOTA) analysis planning a bean/cowpea collaborative research support program. Appendix VIII.l Guide to proposal preparation for the Bean/Cowpea Collabora tive Research Support Program. Appendix VIII.2 Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Crop Production, a Lesson for Small Farmers by Luis A. Navarro. 1977. Appendix VIII.3 Don Victor: A Small Farmer in Costa Rica Appendix IX.I Update of progress to date. December 22, 1978. Appendix I.2 Update of progress to date. January 29, 1979. Appendix 11.3 Update of progress to date. March 14, 1979. APPMDICES (cont'd) Appendix IX.4 Update of progress to date. April 1, 1979. Appendix X.1 Sumary of proposed Collaborative Research Support grant on conn beans and covpeas (Bean and Cowpea CRSP) Appendix X.2 Draft of telegram to LDC institutions (through USAID). Appendix n1.1 Current State-of-the-Art Book Outline. Appendix XI.2 Form letter requesting substantive input into SOTA. Appendix X1.3 Guidelines on a Methodology for Preparing State-of-the-Art Analyses, Documents, and Handbooks for World Food Problems. January, 1976. INTDIM PLANNING REPORT OF THE BEAN/COPUE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SUPPORT PROGRAM May 15, 1979 I. ATHOIIZATION TO PROCEED WITH PLANNING The Board fr International Food and Agricultural Development, (BIFAD), at its July, 1978 meeting, authorized proceeding with planning of a Collabora tive Research Support Program (CRSP) for beans and copeaus. Representatives of eleven Experiment Stations concerned with dry bean/ covpea research met in Chicago August 7, 1978. These representatives authorized Michigan State University, acting on behalf of all interested Agricultural Experiment Stations and U.S. institutions, to submit a planning grant proposal to AID. The proposal was submitted August 28, and the planning grant was aewarded to ?SU, effective October 1, 1978, with Dr. M. W. Adams as the Principal Investigator. On October 1, 1978, Dr. Donald H. Wallace, bean breeder-physiologist was appointed, until June 30, 1979. to function as plan-iing coordinator, while on leave from Cornell University. With Dr. M. Wayne Ads=, Dr. Wallace has begun and coordinated all the planning effort included in this Interim Report. 11. DETERMINING MANIFEST INTEREST IN BEANS/COWPEAS During the last two weeks of October, 1978 a letter was sent from the office of Dr. S. H. Wittwer. the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, to the Title III representatives of all U.S. institutions eligible to partici pate in Title XII programs. This letter, a copy of which is attached as Appendix I. asked U.S. institutions with a manifest interest in the bean/cowps ClaSP to so indicate, by responding to the Bean/Cowpea CSP Planning Office at MSU. The forty-three institutions that indicated a manifest interest are as follows: A.labm AricuIlural and Mechanical University University of Arizona Auburn University Boyce Thowpscn Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University University of California, Davis University of California. Riverside Clameon University Colorado State University University of Colorado at Boulder 2 University of Florida Fort Hays State University University of Georgia University of Haraii University of Idaho Univerrtty of Illinois at Urbana-Chaupaign Kansas State University Charles F. KAttering Research Laboratory Langston University University of MLmi University of Michigan Michigan State University University of Minnesota Mississippi State University University of Missouri Montana State University University of Nebraska New York - Coztill University North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University North Carolina State University at Raleigh North Dakota State University Oregon State University Purdue University University of Puerto Rico Rutgers University Southern University South Carolina State College South Dakota State University Texas A 4 M University United States Department of Agriculture Utah State University Virginia State College Washington State University University of Wisconsin-Madison The above 0orty-threo institutions listed about 231 scientists as having a manifest interest. This is a minimum number since several additional individuals from several institutions have recently expressed interest in prticipating. The grouping of these scientists by major areas of scientific discipline is as follov: Ntmber of Scientists Discipline Ixpressing Manifest Interest Ireeding and Genetics 27 9conoui sts 3ntomology 10 Food Science and Nutrition 53 Nitrogen - Rhisobium 32 Physiology 25 Production Practices 17 Seed Programs sociology Sails Contro2 31 ?Ot I 231 3 111. ORENTTION TRIPS AND ACTIVITIES A. Visits to the University of Missouri and to USAID-Washington. Visits to the University of Missouri and USAID-Washingtou by both Drs. Adams and Wallace occurred, respectively, on October 23-24 and 26-27, 1978. Full reports of these visits are included as Appendices II-1 through 11-4. The major concepts learned from the Missouri and USAID visits were: 1. CUSP efforts are to be directed at the poorest LDC farmers; they are to support research that contributes directly to the needs of bean/covpea programs in the LDCa. 2. There must be a major socio-economic input into the CRSP planning and ultimate plan, which should complement the biological inputs. 3. It is expected that a large part of the expenditures of the CRSP will be spent in the LDC, perhaps directly by U.S. institutions or as pass-through ftmds, the expenditure of which is controlled by the collaborating LDC institutions. 4. It is expected that U.S. institutions will contribute from their own financial resources an average of 25% of the expenditures of the CRSP. 5. USAID bureaus and country missions are to work with U.S. educa tional and research institutions in implementing the Title XII CRSPs. 6. We should develop and defend three alternative CUSP plans. One that is appropriate for each of low. mediam and high levels of funding. 7. In conjunction with the planning effort we should prepare a state of the art (SOTA) manuscript that can be published and will meet the needs of that full world-wide audience tuat may have sr 4 entific or policy interests in beans/covpeas. B. Developing a Quetionnaire egarding Constraints. During the Missouri and USAID visits, it was suggested that we de velop a questionnaire, for use primarily in the LDCa, to be used in as certainin, the constraints to production and consumption of bean/cowpeas in LDCa. This develog!Snk was b!Mu by ,first replacin &orhummillet in the sorthamlelt qetio -ire with 'be-"-lc~pea aL followed by also vubstltutl% a ,epr;PrM-tt d~a&&fiLA --g tS=. The resulting questionnaire was revieved at -U. A particularly valuable suggestion came from the Sahel-African Program of the HSU Department of Agricultural Economics. These reviewers considered thc list of problems or constraints that this questionnaire asked about to be a mixed listing of problems and solutions. 4 They suggebted that many of the problems, which had been placed on the listing by plant scientists, were problems from the scientists' viewpoint. However, from the viewpoint of the small farmer sitting in the center of his farm. these scientist-suggested problems were really solutions.

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