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Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Corn
ISBN : 9789706480750
Author : Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework,Abate, Gashaw Tadesse,Yimam, Seid,Benfica, Rui,Spielman, David J.,Place, Frank
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Several factors contribute to the low level of improved variety use in Ethiopia. Among those, on the supply side, is the limited availability of seed in the volumes, quality, and timeliness required by farmers, which is partly a result of limited public and private investment in the sector. Beginning in 2011, the Government of Ethiopia introduced a novel experiment-the Direct Seed Marketing (DSM) approach-to reduce some of the centralized, state-run attributes of the country’s seed market and rationalize the use of public resources. DSM was designed to incentivize private and public seed producers to sell seed directly to farmers rather than through the state apparatus. This study is the first quantitative evaluation of DSM’s impact on indicators of a healthy seed system: access to quality seeds, on-farm productivity, and market participation of smallholders. Using a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach, the study finds that DSM led to a 26 percent increase in maize yields and a 5 percent increase in the share of maize harvest sold. DSM also led to improvements in seed availability for all three of Ethiopia’s major cereals: maize, wheat, and teff. However, DSM’s effects on yields and share of harvest sold are not statistically significant for wheat and teff. These crop-specific differences in performance are likely explainable by biological differences between hybrid maize and openly pollinated varieties of wheat and teff that incentivize private sector participation in maize seed markets over wheat and teff seed markets. These differences demand different policies and perhaps even institutional approaches to accelerating adoption between hybrids and OPVs.
Author : Mekonen, Leulsegged Kasa,Minot, Nicholas,Warner, James,Abate, Gashaw T.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This study evaluates the impact in the main cropping season of 2015 of a new approach to the distribution of improved seed in Ethiopia, known as Direct Seed Marketing (DSM). Under DSM, seed producers are allowed to sell seed directly to farmers, in contrast to the conventional seed marketing (CSM) system in which seed passes from seed producers to regional Bureaus of Agriculture to woreda Agricultural Offices to Development Agents, cooperative unions, and primary cooperatives, who, in turn, sell the seed to farmers. The study is based on a survey of 800 farmers, 118 agricultural extension workers, 75 seed sellers, and 24 seed producers in Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples (SNNP), and Tigray regions. The performance of the DSM program in 2015 was evaluated on eight criteria: seed availability, sufficiency of supply, timeliness of delivery, seed pricing, quality, ensuring accountability for low-quality seed, ease of purchase, and use of public resources. The results indicate that DSM had heterogeneous effects across the different regions, showing the need to strengthen the sharing of experiences with the program across the regions of Ethiopia to scale up DSM’s benefits. However, when we consider the overall DSM program without regional disaggregation, the DSM and CSM systems do not differ significantly on most of the eight criteria, although DSM required significantly less of the time of the farmer-level agricultural extension agents, the Development Agents. DSM performed as well as CSM across the eight criteria examined, while requiring 39 percent less time for the involvement the Development Agents. Farmers’ subjective views of DSM were quite positive. On most criteria, 50 to 65 percent of farmers said DSM performed “better” or “much better” than CSM. The study also identifies specific areas where the performance of DSM needs to be improved. A review of international experience with seed systems is used to provide some additional recommendations regarding the longer-term development of seed systems in Ethiopia.
Author : Benson, Todd,Spielman, David,Kasa, Leulsegged
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
In 2013 the Bureaus of Agriculture in the regional states of Amhara, Oromia, and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples of Ethiopia supported a program of direct marketing of certified seed by seed producers to farmers across 31 woredas (districts). This program stands in contrast to the dominant procedure for supplying such seed in which farmers register with local agricultural offices or extension agents to purchase seed for the coming cropping season and then receive seed either directly from these local offices or through local cooperatives. The evaluation shows that competition between entrepreneurial seed producers to capture a substantial portion of the market of farmer-customers for their seed to enable their firms to remain in business will propel wider and more effective distribution of new and improved hybrid maize to more and more farmers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789706481351
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIAT
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Crop diversification
ISBN : 9789586940719
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9706480080
Author : Venkatachalam Venkatesan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821330861
World Bank Discussion Paper No. 266. Seed production and distribution are important factors in determining the pace of agricultural development. For a seed system to be effective, it must satisfy the different requirements of each crop. Presently
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789706480637
Author : Daniel Callo-Concha,Hannah Jaenicke,Christine B. Schmitt,Manfred Denich
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039286683
The bioeconomy concept aims to add sustainability to the production, transformation, and trade of biological goods. Though implemented around the world, the development of national bioeconomies is uneven, especially in the global South, where major challenges exist in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this context, the international BiomassWeb project aimed to underpin the bioeconomy concept by applying the value web approach, which seeks to uncover complex interlinked value webs instead of linear value chains. The project also aimed to develop intervention options to strengthen and optimize the synergies and trade-offs among different value chains. The Special Issue “Advances in Food and Non-Food Biomass Production, Processing and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Toward a Basis for a Regional Bioeconomy" compiles 23 articles produced in this framework. The articles are grouped in four sections: the value web approach; the production side; processing, transformation and trade; and global views.
Author : Ronnie Vernooy,Pitambar Shrestha,Bhuwon Sthapit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134608607
Community 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 : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251300886
Pulses have a long history in sub-Saharan Africa due to their multiple benefits. Pulses, and legumes in general, can play an important role in agriculture because of their ability to biologically fix atmospheric nitrogen and to enhance the biological turnover of phosphorus; thus they could become the cornerstone of sustainable agriculture in Africa. In this sense, there is a body of literature that points to diversification of existing production systems – particularly legumes species, which provide critical environmental services, including soil erosion control and soil nutrient recapitalization. This publication is a review of some of the promising strategies to support the cultivation and utilization of pulses on smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa. The review is part of the legacy of the International Year of Pulses (IYP), which sought to recognize the contribution that pulses make to human well-being and the environment.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789706481849
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9706480226
Author : Benjamin Karikari,Francis Tetteh,Fred Kizito,Folorunso Mathew Akinseye,Christopher Mutungi,Bekele Hundie Kotu,Terry Ansah
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832546475