Soybean
In SSA, soybean is a cash crop (Rusike et al. 2013). About a third is consumed as food and two-thirds is processed, mostly into edible oil, cake for feed, or processed into flour (Birthal et al. 2010). Nigeria is the biggest producer and exporter of the crop (Abate et al. 2012). In Nigeria, 51% of soybean is sold (Rusike et al. 2013), about 53% of the produce is used for oil while 41% is used for domestic consumption and 6% for processed food products (USDA 2011). Soybean cake is used for livestock feed in both WCA and ESA (Rusike et al. 2013). Both Nigeria and Kenya import soybean cake to make livestock feed (Ibid.).
CURRENT USES
| Non-market | Domestic market | Export market | ||||
| Subsistence | Fuelwood | Fodder | Food/food processing | Feed | Alcohol | |
| X | X | X | ||||
IMPORTANT TRAITS NEEDED TO MEET ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES AND END USES
| Societal | Resistance to environmental stresses | End uses | ||
| Nutrition and health | Biotic | Abiotic | Market | Non-market |
| Drought (early maturity) | Yield, indigenous inoculation, oil content | |||
