The analysis presented here includes market system maps for these commodities - maize and beans – including an assessment of the core value chain and the enabling and supporting environments for the movement of these products through the chain. The enabling environment is made up of three main areas – rules, laws and regulations imposed by government that affect the core value chain, informal behaviors, customs and norms that determine practices and shape markets, and investment in infrastructure and public goods and services. The supporting environment includes agricultural input and other service providers such as agricultural extensionists, providers of irrigation systems, fertilizers and pesticides, or financial service providers such as credit for smallholder farmers. Included in the supporting environment are alternative cropping strategies and influences that may not actually support the production of beans and maize but do help clarify how production can be reinforced in anticipation of crises such as drought. Very importantly, the entire analysis includes heavy emphasis on other ongoing crises which were repeatedly mentioned by the market actors interviewed as part of the exercise. The report therefore highlights how smallholder farmers and other actors react to a variety of crises, and how their specific response to drought is embedded in those other adaptive strategies. The analysis has shown that beans are much more important in terms of a cash crop and less problematic in terms of conflict with livestock owners. In addition to focusing on the beans market system three general recommendations are offered before more specific action points. These are a) to work within the existing market systems, strengthening those actors and linkages that can ublock the market potential, rather than creating parallel structures; b) involve government, where possible by working alongside the state rather than in parallel, or competition; and c) develop a rigorous M&E system that fosters transparency and ownership of the key market players.