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    86) African Indigenous Vegetable Seed Systems in Western Kenya

    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

    87) African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC): status of developing genomic resources for African orphan crops

    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

    88) African Seed Enterprises Sowing the Seeds of Food Security

    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

    89) African Union Whitepaper provides options and recommendations for tackling COVID-19 impacts on seed sectors

    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

    90) AGENT - Project

    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