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creators_name: Rattunde, F
creators_name: Weltzien, E
creators_name: Sidibé, M
creators_name: Diallo, A
creators_name: Diallo, B
creators_name: vom Brocke, K
creators_name: Nebié, B
creators_name: Touré, A
creators_name: Traoré, Y
creators_name: Sidibé, A
creators_name: Diallo, C
creators_name: Diakité, S
creators_name: Bretaudeau, A
creators_name: Christinck, A
creators_gender: Female
creators_gender: Female
creators_gender: Female
icrisatcreators_name: Sidibé, M
icrisatcreators_name: Nebié, B
icrisatcreators_name: Touré, A
affiliation: Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
affiliation: ICRISAT (Bamako)
affiliation: Programme Sorgho, Institut D’Économie Rurale (IER), Bamako
affiliation: Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) – Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales (AGAP), Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique Pour Le développement (CIRAD), Montpellier
affiliation: AGAP, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier
affiliation: Union Locale de Producteurs Céréales, Dioila
affiliation: Unité de Ressources Génétiques, Institut d’Économie Rurale (IER), Bamako
affiliation: Institut Polytechnique Rurale de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée (IPR/IFRA), Katibougou
affiliation: Laboratoire d’Agro-Physio-génétique et de Biotechnologies Végétales de l’Institut Polytechnique Rural de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée IPR/IFRA, Katibougou
affiliation: Seed4change Research & Communication, Gersfeld
affiliation: German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL), Witzenhausen
country: USA
country: Mali
country: France
country: Germany
title: Transforming a traditional commons-based seed system through collaborative networks of farmer seed-cooperatives and public breeding programs: the case of sorghum in Mali
ispublished: pub
subjects: PLB1
subjects: s1.4
subjects: s355
subjects: s61
subjects: sed1
divisions: CRPS1
crps: CG1
full_text_status: public
keywords: Commons, Commoning, Seed systems, Plant breeding, Farmer cooperatives, Mali
note: The authors appreciate the contributions of
Willmar Leiser and Stephan von Borstel for preparing and editing the
map of sorghum network partners and the IER and ICRISAT sorghum
breeding programs for providing the coordinates. Helpful comments
and suggestions made by Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach and Julia Tschersich
at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg on earlier versions of
this paper are gratefully acknowledged.
abstract: Malian farmers’ traditional system for managing seed of sorghum, an indigenous crop of vital importance for food security and survival, can be conceptualized as a commons. Although this system maintains a wide range of varieties and helps ensure access to seed, its ability to create and widely disseminate new varieties to meet evolving opportunities and challenges is
limited. A network of farmer groups, public breeding programs, and development organizations collaborating in decentralized creation and dissemination of sorghum varieties in Mali is examined regarding (1) how the network developed and what activities it conducts; (2) the resulting varietal diversity, varietal performance and organizational models; and (3) the elements
of the traditional seed system that were maintained, strengthened or transformed. A single-case study approach was used that relies on published literature, official catalogues of released varieties and a database of farmer seed-cooperative requests for foundation seed. The functioning of the network and its varietal-, seed-, and organizational- outcomes are documented and
the elements of the traditional sorghum seed system that are maintained or strengthened are analyzed. The evolution of the network’s reliance on commoning as a social process and its strengthening of core Seed Commons features are discussed with a view to the network’s contributions to targeted development outcomes and potential replicability. The case demonstrates how creating a framework for collaboration, enabling actors and organizations to take on collective responsibility while maintaining distributed decision-making at local level, opens opportunities for transforming farming- and food-systems towards sustainability and resilience.
date: 2020-10
date_type: published
publication: Agriculture and Human Values (TSI)
publisher: Springer
id_number: doi:10.1007/s10460-020-10170-1
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0889-048X
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-020-10170-1
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citation:   Rattunde, F and Weltzien, E and Sidibé, M and Diallo, A and Diallo, B and vom Brocke, K and Nebié, B and Touré, A and Traoré, Y and Sidibé, A and Diallo, C and Diakité, S and Bretaudeau, A and Christinck, A  (2020) Transforming a traditional commons-based seed system through collaborative networks of farmer seed-cooperatives and public breeding programs: the case of sorghum in Mali.  Agriculture and Human Values (TSI).   ISSN 0889-048X     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11656/1/Rattunde2020_Article_TransformingATraditionalCommon.pdf