Capacitate East Africa - Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries of the Capacitate East Africa project include:

• These will be the poor, smallholder farmers (many of whom are women) and their families who grow staple, traditional and high value crops: an estimated 85 million farmers.
• Consumers and traders in Eastern Africa and the EU will also benefit from new varieties.
  
• Through training of trainers, 100 students in East African universities each year post-project will benefit from the training programmes of this project.
• Four post-graduate students will receive training in the UK during the project.
  

A scientist from Uganda Martyrs University (right) discusses a bean variety trial with farmers in their field.