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African indigenous vegetable (AIV) production systems are often constrained by the availability of high-quality seed. Concerted efforts to improve the informal seed sector could increase farmers’ access to seed, but these efforts are hampered by a lack of knowledge around the quality of farmer-produced...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
The African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) was established in 2011 with an aim to reduce stunting and malnutrition by providing nutritional security through improving locally adapted nutritious, but neglected, under-researched or orphan African food crops. Foods from these indigenous or naturalized crops...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
FAO and AfricaRice joined efforts to document, throughout Africa, success stories of small and medium-sized seed enterprises dealing with non-hybrid food crops and identify the factors behind their success. The cases presented in this book provide an overview of the current status of the African seed...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2011
In 2020, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI) supported the development of a Whitepaper aimd at informing strategies to manage the COVID-19 crisis and its impacts on the functioning of African seed sectors. The White Paper reviews the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on key aspects of the...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
Project from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme - AGENT aims to unlock the full potential of the biological material stored in gene banks around the globe by using FAIR international data standards and an open digital infrastructure for the management of plant genetic...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Europe
Publication year: N/A