Author: AidEnvironment, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI) & ISSD
Topics: seed sector, transformation, evidence-based decisions
The Rapid Assessments are currently being piloted to assess the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the functioning of the seed sector in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Uganda, where WCDI collaborates with national partners in seed programmes.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Topics: seed sector, governance, policy
This guide explains what seed policies are and how they differ from seed laws; describes the participatory process of seed policy formulation; the nature and layout of seed policy documents; key elements contained in seed policies; and addresses issues involved in their implementation.
Author: International Crop Research Institute for the Arid Tropics
Topics: seed sector, governance, research
ICRISAT aims at building, with partners across crop value chains, inclusive and sustainable seed systems that provide dryland small farmers with sufficient quantity of high quality seeds, at the right time and right place, at reasonable costs.
In this webpage, you will find useful models and lessons learnt on the seed dilemma: How to reach smallholder farmers. Available in English.
Author: Access to Seeds Index Initiative
Topics: seed enterprises, performance, seed sector, private sector
Part of the World Benchmarking Alliance, the Seed Access Index assesses and compares seed companies on their efforts to improve access to quality seeds of improved varieties for smallholder farmers. The index primarily seeks to identify leadership and good practice, providing a database for discussion on where and how the seed industry can step up its efforts.
Author: Marie Boucher, Paris 7 Diderot University
Topics: Seeds, agrobiodiversity, terminology, seed systems
This documentary and terminology research commentary provides a base of terms and documents that can help in the presentation and popularization of the issues relating to seed systems and biodiversity in agriculture.
Author: CIRAD & INERA, 2020
Topics: Legislation / Governance / Harmonisation
This working paper summarizes the basis of knowledge and information on public policy that regulate the seed sector in the West African. It synthesizes the contributions of several sources of information relating to master’s work, experts’ interviews, consultations’ forums between 2016 and 2020.
On 5 March in Accra, the Ghanaian Ministry of Food and Agriculture signed a READ MORE
The Workshop on Measuring the performance of the seed sector will be held from Tuesday 25 to Wednesday, October 26, 2016 in Abidjan.READ MORE
AfricaSeeds and the African Union Commission are now working together to promote food security and transformation of the rural sector in Africa.READ MORE
