Sokoine University of Agriculture in collaboration with the ZALF (Leibniz Centre of Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany), Unilurio and IIAM (Mozambique) has received funding from the Germany Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) to undertake the VEGI-LEG Project (Implementing innovative processing technologies for nutrient-dense plant foods {African indigenous vegetables and legumes} to safeguard perennial nutrition security– an East African and Southeast African country comparison)

The aim of the project is to improve food and nutrition security through processing of pigeon peas and African indigenous vegetables with research activities in Zambezia Province (Mozambique) and Lindi Region (Tanzania).