Download or read book Seed Business Management in Africa written by J. MacRobert and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seed Systems in Sub Saharan Africa written by Venkatachalam Venkatesan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Discussion Paper No. 266. Seed production and distribution are important factors in determining the pace of agricultural development. For a seed system to be effective, it must satisfy the different requirements of each crop. Presently
Download or read book Seed Business in Africa written by and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Seed Enterprises written by Paul van Mele and published by CABI. This book was released on 2011 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most developing countries, good quality seed is hard to obtain and farmers struggle to save seed from one year to the next. This title takes a people-centred look at the companies, public agencies and family farms that are taking on this role and making a difference to food security across Africa.
Download or read book An Investors Guide to Africa s Emerging Seed Markets written by Flo Dirks and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragmented market intelligence is the major barrier to investment in Africa’s emerging seed markets, according to participants in our June 23rd conference session on An investor guide for Africa. There is significant demand for a service of assessing the attractiveness of emerging seed markets in Africa for (impact) investment. The service should go beyond collating relevant information from diverse sources, by interpreting it and making informed recommendations to (impact) investors. We intend for our report to offer a substantiated value proposition for an entrepreneur or institution interested in prototyping and anchoring this service. We do this with the view to increase intelligence on Africa’s emerging seed markets. This report shares what Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation has uncovered through research about seed market intelligence in Africa. The research has been conducted mostly online involving literature review, key informant interviews with 20 leaders in government, industry, science, and civil society and panel discussion about the actual intelligence and minimum viable product for a service they require in making investment decisions. Among them were respondents from: the African Union Commission; the regional economic community COMESA; national, regional, and multinational seed companies; development finance institutes and commercial lenders; international agricultural research institutes, other knowledge institutes, and consultants; the African Seed Trade Association (AFSTA); and an International NGO. The research revealed several useful platforms, indices, and reports offering data for indicators of relevance to investors. Sources of market intelligence for the entire African region are included in the report. However, each does not cover all countries and dimensions of interest. We assessed 12 of them and learned that The African Seed Access Index (TASAI), Access to Seeds Index of the World Benchmarking Alliance, and Enabling the Business of Agriculture index of the World Bank overlap in 17 countries where data from CAADP Biennial Reviews are also available. These countries across Western and Central, and Eastern and Southern Africa offer the most readily available information for making investment decisions. Our research also resulted in the convergence of multiple indicators around four categories. This includes those that assess: (i.) seed sector performance; (ii.) the potential absorption of crop harvests in outputs markets; (iii.) current progress against targets for development impact; and (iv.) other variables of the country context. Cascading from that level of aggregation are three topics (sub-categories) in each. For the seed sector these include indicators of seed demand, seed supply and seed regulatory function. For output markets these include the size or value of these markets, the level of investments made in farm productivity, and organization of producers in leveraging economies of scale. For impact these include different indicators of poverty reduction, food security and nutrition, and climate change adaptation and mitigation and biodiversity conservation, management, and use. And lastly, for country context these include demographics, political and economic stability, and infrastructure. A mosaic of data is available from the indices and other sources of information mentioned above. Important to our efforts to collate these data are their availability in the public domain. Our research offers a substantiated value proposition and minimum viable product for the service. What it falls short of doing is outlining a viable business model for anchoring this service in the seed sector. Should an entrepreneur or institution be interested to pilot the service in Africa, we advise that they thoroughly consider the business model, including partnerships and revenue streams. A critical resource (and cost in the model) includes expertise on seed, seed business, and/or seed systems. Without this knowledge, based on our determination of the minimum viable product, accurate interpretations of the data cannot be made reliably. Collation is not enough to inform investment decisions and (impact) investors are looking for qualitative recommendations as well. We offer some cues for the curation of these data.
Download or read book Seed Policy and Programmes for Sub Saharan Africa written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major challenges facing most countries in sub-Saharan Africa is the need to invest significant resources into strengthening their capacity to increase the availability of good-quality seeds of a wider range of plant varieties. This publication presents the proceedings of the Regional Technical Meeting on Seed Policy and Programmes for sub-Saharan Africa.
Download or read book Model Business Plan for a Small Seed Business in West Africa written by B. R. Gregg and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Africa Seed and Planting Material the newsletter of the West Africa Seed Network WASNET 12 written by and published by IITA. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seeds for African Peasants written by Esbern Friis-Hansen and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seed Business Management in Africa written by and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing the constraints affecting production and deployment of maize seed in DTMA countries of West Africa written by and published by IITA. This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governments Farmers and Seeds in a Changing Africa written by E. Cromwell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the international community there is a growing awareness of the need for a broader and deeper understanding of the relationship between governments and farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Nowhere in the agricultural sector is this awareness growing more rapidly than in the seed sub-sector. Here the quest for alternatives to the large-scale government seed supply organizations of the 1970s and 1980s is becoming more urgent in the face of Africa's stagnating crop yields and mounting food deficits. This book presents the results of the first study to investigate the African seed sector in detail, using case study material from Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It provides a new conceptual approach to analysing structural and organizational issues in the seed sector. The author assesses the likely impact on the seed sector of the two trends of structural adjustment and greater emphasis on community participation. The book also explains the policy lessons for organising the delivery of inputs such as seeds. It will be of interest to economists, other social scientists and policy makers concerned with agriculture and development.
Download or read book Growing Smartly written by Sara Boettiger and published by . This book was released on 1915-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Smartly addresses a question the international development community has asked for many years: how do we scale up the adoption of technologies among the poor? The book focuses on agricultural technologies, and seed in particular, discussing the challenges of scaling seed systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
Download or read book Supply Chains in Sub Saharan Africa written by Bobby Martens and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is necessary to infuse a consistent supply of improved seed varieties into local sub-Saharan African crop production to improve low crop yields. The best distribution channel for the improved seed varieties may be small-scale commercial seed companies, but local entrepreneurs struggle to determine whether such businesses are viable. Using a multi-echelon supply chain approach, a decision support system (DSS) was designed to help African seed entrepreneurs make informed decisions about small-scale seed chain businesses. Specifically, entrepreneurs make decisions about where to locate seed enterprises, with which farmers to contract, and where to store seed. Optimization and simulation modeling are used to evaluate infrastructure variables such as distance, transportation cost, and storage loss and cost in three development level areas. Currently, the decision tool is used in Mozambique, Malawi, Kenya, and Tanzania. The model has supported the start-up of at least 17 small seed companies that are now introducing improved seed varieties into villages and farms. The DSS applies decision science research in a humanitarian application and offers important managerial implications about supply chain infrastructure to nongovernmental organizations and humanitarian groups. Such applications are vital as groups such as USAID, the Gates Foundation, and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) continue to move toward micro-enterprise, value chain, and market-oriented development programs.
Download or read book Seed systems and markets Reflection on policy progress and political economy written by Spielman, David J. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, seed systems and markets in many sub-Saharan African countries have become a central topic in the public discourse around agricultural development. The issues are complex, and often shaped by the specific nature of the crop itself, the agroecology it is cultivated in, and the channels through which farmers obtain seed. What attracts less attention are the political economy factors that shape seed systems development. Not since an array of scholars working with the Institute of Development Studies published a deep and thoughtful volume on the Politics of Seed in Africa’s Green Revolution has the topic of political economy received such attention.
Download or read book West Africa Seed and Planting Material written by and published by IITA. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Crops of Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes the characteristics of 18 little-known indigenous African vegetables (including tubers and legumes) that have potential as food- and cash-crops but are typically overlooked by scientists and policymakers and in the world at large. The book assesses the potential of each vegetable to help overcome malnutrition, boost food security, foster rural development, and create sustainable landcare in Africa. Each species is described in a separate chapter, based on information gathered from and verified by a pool of experts throughout the world. Volume I describes African grains and Volume III African fruits.
