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Community seed banks as seed producers

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11708/
 
Title Community seed banks as seed producers
 
Creator Vernooy, R
Jai, R
Ahlawat, S P
Malik, S K
Mbozie, H
Mugisha, J
Nyabasha, S
Otieno, G
Patil, S
Roy, S
Shrestha, P
Tiwari, S
Yadav, R
 
Subject Agricultural Marketing
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Seeds/Seed Bank
Seed Systems
Value Chains
 
Description Community-based seed producers are a relatively under-researched and under-documented
category of seed producers, but have the potential to cater to the diverse seed needs and interests
of smallholder farmers. This working paper presents a number of such community-seed producers,
with a focus on community seed banks. The case studies from India, Nepal, Uganda and Zimbabwe
point to the viability of community seed banks as seed producers and distributors, but becoming
successful is not easy and depends on several factors, including initial technical guidance and
support, sufficient time, adherence to a seed value chain perspective and the development of a
sound business plan from the very start.
 
Publisher CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals
 
Date 2020
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11708/1/GLDC_WP_2_Bioversity_2021_27Jan_revised_compressed.pdf
Vernooy, R and Jai, R and Ahlawat, S P and Malik, S K and Mbozie, H and Mugisha, J and Nyabasha, S and Otieno, G and Patil, S and Roy, S and Shrestha, P and Tiwari, S and Yadav, R (2020) Community seed banks as seed producers. Working Paper. CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals, Rome, Italy.