Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Seeds for Needs factsheet 2: The crowdsourcing approach

This factsheet summarizes the use of a crowdsourcing approach in Ethiopia to speed up farmers' evaluation of the varieties while collecting scientific data on how they adapt to climate change. This document is part of a series of 6 factsheets about Seeds for Needs Initiative in Ethiopia. 
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectPlant breeding techniques and approaches
PublisherAlliance Bioversity International & CIAT
Publication year2015
RegionsAfrica
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typeLearning materials
Resource linkhttps://alliancebioversityciat.org/publications-data/crowdsourcing-approach
KeywordsBest practices approaches and techniques; Plant breeding