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Multi-stakeholder framework for intervening in RTB seed systems: user’s guide.

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Title Multi-stakeholder framework for intervening in RTB seed systems: user’s guide.
 
Creator CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas
 
Subject seeds
seed quality
 
Description Root, tuber, and banana (RTB) crops are important for food security and commerce, especially in the tropics. They are vegetatively reproduced, so unlike crops grown from true seed. RTBs face unique challenges-they are bulky, perishable, and susceptible to pests (especially diseases)-and their seed systems have suffered from low investments. This user’s guide presents a tool, called the multi-stakeholder framework for intervening in RTB seed systems. It is designed to help any interested person to understand RTB seed systems or to improve interventions (e.g., projects or programs) in them. The frameworks may be graphed as a table, with rows of stakeholders (e.g., policymakers, researchers, and seed producers) and columns of characteristics: availability of seed, access, and quality. Access includes delivery channels, affordability, and awareness. Seed quality includes crop variety and other issues (health, genetic purity, physiological age, and physical quality). Gender should always be taken into account when using the framework. The framework can be used to plan a future intervention or to analyze the recent history of one. When used before an intervention, the framework may guide a study of the existing seed system and identify bottlenecks and key actions for the upcoming intervention. When used to monitor an ongoing intervention, the framework can help to plan the evolution of activities, scope, theory of change (including assumptions about farmers and seed), objectives, and impacts. The framework will help stakeholders to think about RTB seed systems in a holistic way and to account for differences-even contradictions-in the perspectives of some of the people and organizations who are the stakeholders in these crops.
 
Date 2016
2017-05-16T20:41:19Z
2017-05-16T20:41:19Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas. 2016. Multi-stakeholder framework for intervening in RTB seed systems: user’s guide. Lima (Peru). 13 p. RTB Working Paper. ISSN 2309-6586. no.2016-1.
2309-6586
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81049
https://doi.org/10.4160/23096586RTBWP20161
 
Language en
 
Relation RTB Working Paper
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format 13 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Potato Center