Tropical Legumes: Resources for the Future

The panel that this report describe has by objectives: to identify leguminous plants, currently little known and underutilized, that could improve the well-being of people in developing countries; to select the species with the greatest inherent value; and to indicate what needs to be done to capitalize on these plants and to develop them to their potential. Root crops: yam bean, African yam bean and other root crops. Pulses: bambara groundnut, jackbean and swordbean, lablab bean, marama bean, moth bean, rice bean, tarwi, tepary bean, tropical lima bean. Fruits: carob and tamarind. Forages: forage shrubs and trees, Acacia tortilis, other forage acacias, Prosopis species, Acacia auriculiformis, Albizia species Sesbania gradiflora and other fast-growin trees etc.