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891) Business skills for small- scale seed producers: handbooks for small-scale seed producers: a trainer’s guide. Handbook 3.

Accessing good quality seed is a problem faced by small- scale farmers throughout Africa. One solution to this dilemma is developing local level seed enterprises. The handbook “Business skills for seed producers” is intended for use by small-scale farmers, business people and rural institutions such...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2002

892) Participatory evaluation guides the development and selection of farmers’ preferred rice varieties for salt- and flood-affected coastal deltas of South and Southeast Asia

Rice is the staple food and provides livelihood for smallholder farmers in the coastal delta regions of South and Southeast Asia. However, its productivity is often low because of several abiotic stresses including high soil salinity and waterlogging during the wet (monsoon) season and high soil and...

Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches

Regions: Asia

Publication year: 2018

893) Facilitators’ Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Participatory Plant Breeding. Module: Participatory Variety Enhancement

Participatory Variety Enhancement (PVE) works with appreciated local varieties of cross- and self-pollinating crops. The objective is to either i) restore characteristics, or ‘traits’, that have deteriorated over time, ii) improve preferred traits, or iii) adapt the varieties to changing growing...

Subject: Farming Systems

Regions: Global; Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia

Publication year: 2021

894) OpenSourceSeeds

OpenSourceSeeds (OSS) is an European initiative of the German Association for AgriCulture and Ecology (Agrecol) and is based in Germany. OpenSourceSeeds was launched in 2017 and pursues the objective to protect agricultural seeds as commons. It helps to establish a commons-based seed sector as a second...

Subject: Crop diversity

Regions: Europe

Publication year: N/A

895) How to develop and manage your own community seed bank Farmers’ handbook. Technical issues: Booklet 2 of 3

This handbook is a companion to Community seed banks: concept and practice. Facilitator handbook. The three booklets making up this handbook were written and designed for rural producers who are interested in establishing, supporting, and managing a community seed bank. Each focuses on a theme presented...