Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Seeds for Needs: crop diversity for resilience

This factsheet presents the Bioversity International's Seeds for Needs approach, the ‘triadic comparisons of technologies’ (tricot), which provides an effective and cost-efficient way to improve and diversify smallholder seed systems through better information and access to a portfolio of adapted crops and varieties.   
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectCrop diversity
PublisherAlliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Publication year2019
RegionsGlobal
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typeLearning materials
Resource linkhttps://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/101575/Seeds4Needs.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
KeywordsPlant breeding; Seed management