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    • Special focus on interventions with Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTBs)
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Development Guidance

Development Guidance


Seed-based development demands a holistic approach if one aims to have impact for a large number of farmers and across a broad rangeof crops. Seed systems need to be designed to meet multiple goals: increase production, enhance family nutrition, make systems more resilience, and help farmers generate income. The information below includes advice and evidence for strengthening formal seed systems, farmers’ (informal) seed systems and integrated models.

Overview advice

Integrating Seed Sytems

Integrating Seed Systems

Specific Responses

Storage options for grain and seed

Hermetic technologies for Grain + Seed Storage (webinar- english) Approaches to commercialization of Hermetic Technologies to Reduce Storage Loss (webinar-english) Marketing for Post-harvest Technology PICS poster used in Sierra Leone

Storage options for grain and seed : practical briefs

Brief 1 Defining seed quality and principles Brief 2 Hermetic seed storage technology Brief 3 Economics and promotion

Small packs of seed

Impacts of selling seed in small packs Marketing for Post-harvest Technology

Quality Declared Seed

Not al seed is declared equal: improving access

Seed Production (decentralized, with farmers)

Handbook 1 Handbook 2 Handbook 3

Homestead gardens

Household Gardens in Developmental and Emergency Contexts

SeedSystem is a collaboration among diverse national and international organizations aiming to improve seed security in vulnerable and high-stress areas of the world. More about us.

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