relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/11708/
title: Community seed banks as seed producers
creator: Vernooy, R
creator: Jai, R
creator: Ahlawat, S P
creator: Malik, S K
creator: Mbozie, H
creator: Mugisha, J
creator: Nyabasha, S
creator: Otieno, G
creator: Patil, S
creator: Roy, S
creator: Shrestha, P
creator: Tiwari, S
creator: Yadav, R
subject: Agricultural Marketing
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
subject: Seeds/Seed Bank
subject: Seed Systems
subject: Value Chains
description: Community-based seed producers are a relatively under-researched and under-documented  category of seed producers, but have the potential to cater to the diverse seed needs and interests  of smallholder farmers. This working paper presents a number of such community-seed producers,  with a focus on community seed banks. The case studies from India, Nepal, Uganda and Zimbabwe  point to the viability of community seed banks as seed producers and distributors, but becoming  successful is not easy and depends on several factors, including initial technical guidance and  support, sufficient time, adherence to a seed value chain perspective and the development of a  sound business plan from the very start.
publisher: CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals
date: 2020
type: Monograph
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/11708/1/GLDC_WP_2_Bioversity_2021_27Jan_revised_compressed.pdf
identifier:   Vernooy, R and Jai, R and Ahlawat, S P and Malik, S K and Mbozie, H and Mugisha, J and Nyabasha, S and Otieno, G and Patil, S and Roy, S and Shrestha, P and Tiwari, S and Yadav, R  (2020) Community seed banks as seed producers.  Working Paper. CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals, Rome, Italy.