Securing Access to Seed: Social Relations and Sorghum Seed Exchange in Eastern Ethiopia

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Seed exchanges, a key to analyze crop diversity dynamics in farmer-led on-farm conservation (2011, background): “However, in some situations, when social networks are disturbed by a growing prevalence of commercial transactions, cultural norms could change and the maintenance of landraces may collapse (McGuire 2007, 2008).”
Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa: A Conceptual Framework for Creating Coherence Between Practices, Programs, and Policies (2012, background): “Seed shortages may occur when contacts with communities in areas that have experienced better cropping conditions during a previous season are limited, and farmers may have to rely on poor-quality planting materials, such as food grain obtained in the market and whose varietal characteristics and se”
Seed systems smallholder farmers use (2016, background): “Multiple descriptions of seed system use do exist in the refereed and particularly grey literature — especially from anthropologists and agricultural economists (Badstue 2006; McGuire 2008; Nagarajan et al. 2007).”
Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape (2015, background): “Similarly McGuire (2008) has described the importance of social networks for access to seeds and planting material.”