BSF project "Promoting Open Source Seed Systems for beans, forage legumes, millet and sorghum for climate change adaptation in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda"

Resource-poor farmers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania face a number of challenges including loss of agro-biodiversity due to climate change. Limited access to information on seeds, and low diversity of available germplasm make it difficult to diversify production and mitigate the effects of unpredictable weather, and hence to ensure food security. This Benefit-sharing Fund project improves farmers’ adaptation to climate change by increasing the availability and diversity of climate-smart varieties of beans, finger millet and sorghum through the development of open source seed systems (OSSS) which provide access to germplasm unencumbered by intellectual property rights.