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Community Seed Banks (CSB)

02 Nov 2022
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Week 76 – Policy Guidance: Community Seed Production – Workshop Proceedings 9-11 December 2013

Authors: CO Ojiewo, S Kugbei, Z Bishaw and JC Rubyogo (eds) , 2013
Key words: governance; community seeds

Over the past decade, there has been an emerging trend to lower yield gaps through promoting more efficient and accessible input markets and ‘market-led technology adoption in agriculture’. READ MORE

01 Sep 2022
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Week 67 – Decentralized Seed Services in Africa: An Assessment of Tanzania and Uganda

Authors: Michael Waithaka (TASAI); Mainza Mugoya; Edward Mabaya; Krisztina Tihanyi; ZEF Working Paper Series, Working Paper 206, 2021
Topics: community seed banks; seed enterprises; Quality Declared Seed

The overall goal of decentralizing seed services is to increase the availability and accessibility of quality seed to farmers. The governments of Uganda and Tanzania have endeavoured to enhance access to improved seed for smallholder farmers.READ MORE