relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/10195/
title: Seed Systems: Models & Lessons Learned
creator: ICRISAT, -
subject: Smallholder Farmers
subject: Cereals
subject: Millets
subject: Pearl Millet
subject: Chickpea
subject: Pigeonpea
subject: Sorghum
subject: Drylands Agriculture
subject: Seeds/Seed Bank
subject: African Agriculture
subject: Indian Agriculture
subject: Legume Crops
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa
subject: Malawi
subject: Seed Systems
description: ICRISAT’s Seed Systems Models and Lessons Learned booklet explains the rationale of ICRISAT’s work on seed systems in the drylands, the different approaches and their impact on the ground. Improving farmers’ access to improved seeds in the drylands is seen as a cost-effective strategy to improve farm productivity and food security. Different models of seed systems are tested and developed by ICRISAT and its development partners in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia depending on the local context. It includes small seed packets, groundnut seed revolving fund in Malawi, support to community-based systems, farmer seed organizations or local seed ventures, and public private seed partnerships like the Hybrid Parents Research Consortium for pearl millet and sorghum in India.  ICRISAT’s vision on seed systems is demand-driven, holistic and working in partnership, along the crop value chain.
publisher: ICRISAT
date: 2017-09
type: Monograph
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/10195/1/Seed%20system%20booklet.pdf
identifier:   ICRISAT, -  (2017) Seed Systems: Models & Lessons Learned.  Monograph. ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad.