Successful Community-based Seed Production Strategies
Author: Peter S. Setimela
Publisher: CIMMYT
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 970648115X
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Author: Peter S. Setimela
Publisher: CIMMYT
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 970648115X
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Publisher: CIMMYT
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 9706481435
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Publisher: CIMMYT
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Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ronnie Vernooy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1134608608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunity seed banks first appeared towards the end of the 1980s, established with the support of international and national non-governmental organizations. This book is the first to provide a global review of their development and includes a wide range of case studies. Countries that pioneered various types of community seed banks include Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Nicaragua, the Philippines and Zimbabwe. In the North, a particular type of community seed bank emerged known as a seed-savers network. Such networks were first established in Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA before spreading to other countries. Over time, the number and diversity of seed banks has grown. In Nepal, for example, there are now more than 100 self-described community seed banks whose functions range from pure conservation to commercial seed production. In Brazil, community seed banks operate in various regions of the country. Surprisingly, despite 25 years of history and the rapid growth in number, organizational diversity and geographical coverage of community seed banks, recognition of their roles and contributions has remained scanty. The book reviews their history, evolution, experiences, successes and failures (and reasons why), challenges and prospects. It fills a significant gap in the literature on agricultural biodiversity and conservation, and their contribution to food sovereignty and security.
Author: Narayan Prasad Khanal
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-05-07
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 4431554742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes the sustainability of community seed production under a rice–wheat farming system from microeconomic perspectives, considering how seed producers benefit from community seed production and how those benefits continue into the future. Seed producers’ performance in resource management, governance and marketing strategies indicates current benefits, whereas soil conservation and risk-management practices provide the basis for future benefits. Community seed production is a local-level seed management system owned by farmers. This system provides the institutional mechanism to supply diversified seed demands of open-pollinated varieties of food crops in a cost-effective way in rural regions. Being able to address the concerns of food insecurity, poverty, climate stress and biodiversity loss in programs and policies of development agencies, community seed production is gaining popularity among the farmers and the policy makers in developing countries. This book discusses the issues of organizational governance of the community seed producers’ groups and links them with household-level benefits to understand the organizational dynamism and the probable development paths of such organizations in the future. It also highlights the necessity to institutionalize lessons learned in community seed production in the stakeholders’ programs and policies. These understandings provide a basis for formulating policies for strengthening the system in developing countries. Students, researchers, policy makers and donor agencies working with CSP in the developing world will find this book useful in broadening their understanding of CSP in general and its sustainability in particular.
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Publisher: CIMMYT
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Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Centre for Sorghum (India)
Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9290665025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy conducted at the Mahabubnagar, Kurnool, Nalgonda, Anantapur districts of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Author: Jagannath V. Patil
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-03-06
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1119123054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMillets and sorghum are extremely important crops in many developing nations and because of the ability of many of them to thrive in low-moisture situations they represent some exciting opportunities for further development to address the continuing and increasing impact of global temperature increase on the sustainability of the world’s food crops. The main focus of this thorough new book is the potential for crop improvement through new and traditional methods, with the book’s main chapters covering the following crops: sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, foxtail milet, proso millet, little millet, barnyard millet, kodo millet, tef and fonio. Further chapters cover pests and diseases, nutritional and industrial importance, novel tools for improvement, and seed systems in millets. Millets and Sorghum provides full and comprehensive coverage of these crucially important crops, their biology, world status and potential for improvement, and is an essential purchase for crop and plant scientists, and food scientists and technologists throughout the developed and developing world. All libraries in universities and research establishment where biological and agricultural sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this important book on their shelves.
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Publisher: International Potato Center
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Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9789290603726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonas Metzger
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 3658400110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeeds are at the heart of a transformation process that affects more than two billion people worldwide. This study on smallholder farmers in Tanzania examines how local seed systems are anchored in the socio-cultural structures of smallholder life worlds. Using the example of seeds, the close interweaving of agricultural and social practice is traced and it is worked out how individual processes of modernisation brought in from outside have far-reaching consequences for smallholder coexistence. The study provides a concrete, detailed and differentiated account of everyday farming life and of how smallholder households deal with seeds. A particular focus is on seed exchange relationships and how these provide both social security and social cohesion in the study region. The study is based on extensive field research and intensive interviews with farmers, who also have their own say in the work.