At a field day for women farmers near Mpika, Northern Province, extension workers stand up in front of their chairs to answer questions about the new legume crops that women are growing for the first time. - - Integrated Crop Management/Food Legume Project: GRZ/UNDP/ZAM/92/003. The project promotes food legumes such as beans, cowpea, soyabean and groundnuts as ideal crops for small farmers. Legumes are drought resistant, an important quality in drought prone Zambia, do well without expensive inputs and are best managed in small