Seed equal
Strengthening resilience through inclusive seed and product value chains
The focus of this activity is to provide upstream linkages with early generation seed and downstream linkages with grain markets, farmers being the fulcrum on which the pre-farm (seeds) and post-farm (grains) operations hang. It involves scientific guidance on emergency seed assistance programs in countries and regions where CGIAR and the UN World Food Programme work to promote well adapted climate-resilient varieties and quality seeds to vulnerable rural populations in both crisis and chronic stress conditions. This is in addition to generating strategic evidence and recommendations on design and implementation options for both policy and practice in seed sector development programming to ensure that assistance is simultaneously effective, inclusive, and sustainable.
Read about the Initiative’s other focus areas:
- Demand-driven cereal seed systems focused on leveraging
- Boosting legume seed access through a demand-led approach
- Scaling demand-responsive delivery of vegetatively propagated crop seed
- Partnerships, capacity building, and coordination to ensure uptake of public-bred varieties and other innovations
- Policies for varietal turnover, seed quality assurance, and trade in seeds
- Scaling equitable access to quality seed