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The need to look beyond the production and provision of relief seed: experiences from Southern Sudan

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/1506/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-7717.00208
 
Title The need to look beyond the production and provision of relief seed: experiences from Southern Sudan
 
Creator Jones, R B
Bramel, P
Longley, C
Remington, T
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description This paper discusses issues relating to seed security programmes in Sudan based on fieldwork conducted from 2000-01. Free distribution of seeds in selected areas of southern Sudan has been widespread as a way of increasing food security. Field research in areas targeted for seed relief found that farmer seed systems continue to meet the crop and varietal needs of farmers even following the 1998 famine. Donor investments in seed multiplication of improved sorghum have not been sustained due to a lack of effective demand for the improved seed beyond that created by the relief agencies. The article argues that rather than imposing outside solutions, whether through seed provisioning or seed production enterprises, greater attention needs to be given to building on the strengths of existing farmer systems and designing interventions to alleviate the weaknesses. The case is made to support dynamically the process of farmer experimentation through the informed introduction of new crops and varieties that can potentially reinforce the strength and diversity of local cropping systems.
 
Publisher Blackwell Publishing
 
Date 2002
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1506/1/Disasters__26%284%29_302-315__2002.pdf
Jones, R B and Bramel, P and Longley, C and Remington, T (2002) The need to look beyond the production and provision of relief seed: experiences from Southern Sudan. Disasters, 26 (4). pp. 302-315.