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datestamp: 2015-07-10 06:50:09
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type: book
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icrisatcreators_name: Ojiewo, C O
affiliation: ICRISAT(Addis Ababa)
country: Ethiopia
title: Community Seed Production (Workshop Proceedings)
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.13
subjects: s2.4
divisions: D3
crps: crp1.5
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
keywords: Community Seed Production; Seed Production; Seed Production Practices; Seed Systems; Family Farming; Seed Production System; Africa; India, Legumes
abstract: During the 1970s and 1980s, seed system support in developing countries was focused on strengthening public sector institutions including agricultural research centers, extension services and state-owned seed corporations. This approach achieved limited success in Africa such that structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and 1990s resulted in general withdrawal of state seed system support. It created space especially for the private sector but also for civil society seed organizations while maintaining linkages with public sector agricultural research systems. The 1990s also saw the emergence of large-scale direct seed purchase and distribution, particularly in Africa, in response to natural disasters and crisis. Since 2000, agricultural development has been at very low levels with widespread under investment in the sector worldwide. However, there are now indications that donors are regaining interest in agriculture and especially in the seed sector...
date: 2015
date_type: published
publisher: ICRISAT
place_of_pub: Patancheru, Telangana, India
pagerange: 1-176
pages: 176
event_title: Workshop Proceedings on Community Seed Production
event_location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
event_dates: 9-11 December 2013
event_type: workshop
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 9789251087510
book_title: FAO & ICRISAT 2015 Workshop Proceedings Community Seed Production
editors_name: Ojiewo, C O
editors_name: Kugbei, S
editors_name: Bishaw, Z
editors_name: Rubyogo, J C
citation:   Ojiewo, C O and Kugbei, S and Bishaw, Z and Rubyogo, J C, eds.  (2015) Community Seed Production (Workshop Proceedings).    ICRISAT, Patancheru, Telangana, India, pp. 1-176.  ISBN 9789251087510     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/8854/1/2014-453%20CPE%20173%20Community%20Seed%20Production.pdf