Facilitator’s Guide: Community Managed Seed Security (CMSS) model

The CMSS model is a participatory farmer-led approach for systematically planning and executing interventions towards promoting farmers’ seed security and seed sovereignty. The model consolidates the existing good seed security practices scattered across the PELUM Uganda network into a comprehensive approach for promoting community-led seed security among smallholder farmers. It is hoped that after applying the CMSS model, farmers will be able to have a practical and harmonized approach to community-led seed security, have the technical capacity to identify, multiply, improve and distribute or share good quality seed and get an alternative source of income through the sale of surplus seed.