Farmers, seeds and varieties : supporting informal seed supply in Ethiopia

By M. Thijssen, Abdurahman Beshit, Z. Bishaw, W. D. Boef. 2008

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Seed, fertilizer, and agricultural extension in Ethiopia (2012, background): “The seed industry in Ethiopia involves a range of both public and private sectors (Figure 3.3; also see Bishaw, Sahlu, and Simane 2008).”
Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa: A Basis for Seed Policy and Law (2013, background): “● Ethiopia turned its public seed production infrastructure into the originally monopolistic and public Ethiopia Seed Enterprise, which currently competes mainly with other public entities in government-driven seed dissemination systems (Bishaw et al. 2007; Alemu 2011).”
Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa: A Conceptual Framework for Creating Coherence Between Practices, Programs, and Policies (2012, methodology): “We refer to the informal seed system as to distinguish it from the formal system; it is illustrated in Figure 1 (Almekinders, Louwaars, & de Bruijn 1994; Almekinders & Louwaars 1999; Thijssen et al. 2008; Dalton et al. 2010).”