Author: Peter S. SetimelaPublisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 970648115X
Category : Crops
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Successful Community-based Seed Production Strategies
Author: Peter S. SetimelaPublisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 970648115X
Category : Crops
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Strategies for Strengthening and Scaling Up Community-Based Seed Production
Author: Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9706481435
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Seed Business Management in Africa
Author: Community Seed Production Sustainability in Rice-Wheat Farming
Author: Narayan Prasad KhanalPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 4431554742
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book analyzes the sustainability of community seed production under a rice–wheat farming system from microeconomic perspectives, considering how seed producers benefit from community seed production and how those benefits continue into the future. Seed producers’ performance in resource management, governance and marketing strategies indicates current benefits, whereas soil conservation and risk-management practices provide the basis for future benefits. Community seed production is a local-level seed management system owned by farmers. This system provides the institutional mechanism to supply diversified seed demands of open-pollinated varieties of food crops in a cost-effective way in rural regions. Being able to address the concerns of food insecurity, poverty, climate stress and biodiversity loss in programs and policies of development agencies, community seed production is gaining popularity among the farmers and the policy makers in developing countries. This book discusses the issues of organizational governance of the community seed producers’ groups and links them with household-level benefits to understand the organizational dynamism and the probable development paths of such organizations in the future. It also highlights the necessity to institutionalize lessons learned in community seed production in the stakeholders’ programs and policies. These understandings provide a basis for formulating policies for strengthening the system in developing countries. Students, researchers, policy makers and donor agencies working with CSP in the developing world will find this book useful in broadening their understanding of CSP in general and its sustainability in particular.
Community Seed Banks
Author: Ronnie VernooyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134608608
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Community seed banks first appeared towards the end of the 1980s, established with the support of international and national non-governmental organizations. This book is the first to provide a global review of their development and includes a wide range of case studies. Countries that pioneered various types of community seed banks include Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Nicaragua, the Philippines and Zimbabwe. In the North, a particular type of community seed bank emerged known as a seed-savers network. Such networks were first established in Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA before spreading to other countries. Over time, the number and diversity of seed banks has grown. In Nepal, for example, there are now more than 100 self-described community seed banks whose functions range from pure conservation to commercial seed production. In Brazil, community seed banks operate in various regions of the country. Surprisingly, despite 25 years of history and the rapid growth in number, organizational diversity and geographical coverage of community seed banks, recognition of their roles and contributions has remained scanty. The book reviews their history, evolution, experiences, successes and failures (and reasons why), challenges and prospects. It fills a significant gap in the literature on agricultural biodiversity and conservation, and their contribution to food sovereignty and security.
Seed Business in Africa
Author: Seed System Innovations in the Semi-arid Tropics of Andhra Pradesh
Author: National Research Centre for Sorghum (India)Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN: 9290665025
Category : Seed projects
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Study conducted at the Mahabubnagar, Kurnool, Nalgonda, Anantapur districts of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Millets and Sorghum
Author: Jagannath V. PatilPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119123054
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Millets and sorghum are extremely important crops in many developing nations and because of the ability of many of them to thrive in low-moisture situations they represent some exciting opportunities for further development to address the continuing and increasing impact of global temperature increase on the sustainability of the world’s food crops. The main focus of this thorough new book is the potential for crop improvement through new and traditional methods, with the book’s main chapters covering the following crops: sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, foxtail milet, proso millet, little millet, barnyard millet, kodo millet, tef and fonio. Further chapters cover pests and diseases, nutritional and industrial importance, novel tools for improvement, and seed systems in millets. Millets and Sorghum provides full and comprehensive coverage of these crucially important crops, their biology, world status and potential for improvement, and is an essential purchase for crop and plant scientists, and food scientists and technologists throughout the developed and developing world. All libraries in universities and research establishment where biological and agricultural sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this important book on their shelves.
Review of Sweetpotato Seed System in East and Southern Africa
Author: Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN: 9789290603726
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
More than a resource - the social significance of local seed systems and seed exchange in the Global South
Author: Jonas MetzgerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3658400110
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Seeds are at the heart of a transformation process that affects more than two billion people worldwide. This study on smallholder farmers in Tanzania examines how local seed systems are anchored in the socio-cultural structures of smallholder life worlds. Using the example of seeds, the close interweaving of agricultural and social practice is traced and it is worked out how individual processes of modernisation brought in from outside have far-reaching consequences for smallholder coexistence. The study provides a concrete, detailed and differentiated account of everyday farming life and of how smallholder households deal with seeds. A particular focus is on seed exchange relationships and how these provide both social security and social cohesion in the study region. The study is based on extensive field research and intensive interviews with farmers, who also have their own say in the work.