Local seed systems and their importance for an improved seed supply in developing countries

By C. Almekinders, N. Louwaars, G. D. Bruijn. Euphytica, 2004

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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Examining the Role of Collective Action in an Informal Seed System: A Case Study from the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico (2006, background): “(Cromwell, 1990; Almekinders et al., 1994 ; W ieremaet al., 1994; Sperling et al., 1995; Friis-Hansen, 1999; Thiele, 1999; Almekinders & Louwaars, 2000; Seboka & Deressa, 2000; Tripp, 2001), and there is an urgent need to understand them in greater detail (Seboka & Deressa, 2000).”
Can cultivars from participatory plant breeding improve seed provision to small-scale farmers? (2007, neutral): “From a study in three Meso-American countries, Almekinders et al. (1994) reported 75– 80% and 60–80% of all seed lots were farmers’ own saved seed in maize and beans respectively.”
The Importance of the Farmers' Seed Systems in a Functional National Seed Sector (2002, background): “All of activities related to farmers’ seed production and supply are commonly referred to as traditional (Cromwell et al., 1992), local (Almekinders et al., 1994; Louwaars & van Marrewijk, 1996), or farmers’ seed systems (Almekinders & Louwaars, 1999).”
Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa: A Conceptual Framework for Creating Coherence Between Practices, Programs, and Policies (2012, background): “Informal seed systems are also referred to as farmer-managed seed systems ( Bal & Douglas 1992 ), traditional seed systems ( Cromwell, Friss-Hansen, & Turner 1992 ), and local seed systems ( Almekinders, Louwaars, & de Bruijn 1994 ).”
Defining and identifying crop landraces (2005, background): “In fact, several papers have highlighted the relevance of seed exchange for the maintenance of landraces (Almekinders et al., 1994; Louette and Smale, 1996; Zeven, 1999).”
Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa: A Basis for Seed Policy and Law (2013, background): “Furthermore, a lack of awareness of the genetic resources, knowledge, and capabilities available in these systems can also lead to attempts to replace informal seed systems rather than embracing their values (Almekinders et al. 1994; Almekinders and Louwaars 1999; Scoones and Thompson 2011).”
Farmers' seed selection practices and traditional maize varieties in Cuzalapa, Mexico (2000, background): “This concept of a ‘tired’ variety and the need to ‘renew’ through exchange has been reported for other crops and regions ( Almekinders et al., 1994; Lij & Wu, 1996; Sequeira et al., 1993; Sperling et al., 1996; Wood & Lenne, 1997).”
Seed exchanges, a key to analyze crop diversity dynamics in farmer-led on-farm conservation (2011, background): “Farmers’ seed supply is a complex and dynamic system of interrelated activities and components which can be compared to the principal components of formal seed system: breeding, seed production and distribution (Almekinders et al. 1994).”
Cereal landraces for sustainable agriculture. A review (2010, background): “This persistence is not due to increased productivity levels (Almekinders et al., 1994), but because of their increased stability, accomplished through generations of natural and deliberate selection for valuable genes for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses and inter-genotypic competition…”
Wheat Landraces: A mini review - (2013, methodology): “Through this model, stakeholders can (Almekinders et al., 1994; Zeven, 1999): Abdullah A. Jaradat 1.”
Conceptualizing Interventions to Support On-Farm Genetic Resource Conservation (2004, background): “Studies have found that mechanisms for farmer-to-farmer seed flow are based mostly on traditional social networks and family relationships ( Almekinders et al., 1994; Rice, Smale, & Blanco, 1998; ON-FARM GENETIC RESOURCE CONSERVATION 161”
The politics of seed in Africa's green revolution: Alternative narratives and competing pathways (2011, background): “…and development (Minot et al. 2007; De Vries and Toenniessen 2001), seed marketing systems (Crawford et al. 2003; Morris 1998), local seed systems (Almekinders et al 1994; de Boef et al 1993); seed policy (Rohrbach et al 2003; Tripp 2001; 2000; 1997; Wiggins and Cromwell 1995; Cromwell et al.…”
Social Organization of Crop Genetic Diversity. The G × E × S Interaction Model (2011, neutral): “Moreover, these on-farm studies show that seeds are more often acquired from within the community than outside, or from the “informal” as compared to the “formal” (commercial) sector [84,116,117].”
Farmers’ practices, metapopulation dynamics, and conservation of agricultural biodiversity on-farm: a case study of sorghum among the Duupa in sub-sahelian Cameroon (2005, background): “…in traditional agroecosystems, e.g., by examining the insertion of new varieties into local seed systems (e.g. Cromwell, 1990; Voss, 1992; Almekinders et al., 1994), or by developing participatory management approaches in which plant breeders work with farmers to develop new varieties…”