In the following pages you will read inspiring and moving accounts by men and women farmers across eastern and southern Africa who have bravely embraced change to improve their farming methods and hence the lives and livelihoods of their families. These men and women have been associated to one extent or another with the Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Cropping Systems for Food Security in Eastern and outhern Africa (SIMLESA) program. The SIMLESA program was mplemented for 9 years between 2010 and 2019 in 7 African countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique Tanzania and from 2014, Rwanda and Uganda).