Accelerated varietal turnover for open-pollinated crops ( beans, sorghum, groundnuts) in Tanzania – seed sector stakeholders’ landscaping. Baseline Report

Ochieng, Justus; Birachi, Eliud Abucheli; Kessy, Radegunda; Rubyogo, Jean Claude; Odhiambo, Wilfred; Masimane, Jo; Mbugua, Mercy; Kitoto, Victor O.; Sperling, Louise; Mutua, Mercy; Kasubiri, Fadhili; Kalemera, Sylvia; Steinke, Jonathan; Munguatosha, Ngomuo; Daudi, Happy; Shida, Nestory; Mwenda, Emmanuel; Mbiu, Julius; Ndunguru, Agnes; Kibaraza, Areth; Marenya, Paswel; Rutsaert, Pieter; Etten, Jacob van; Ojiewo, Christopher Ochieng; Bahitwa, Revocatus; Templer, Noel; Upendo, Titi; Kilango, Michael; Maganga, Reinfrid; Mbapila, Shadrack; Mollel, Seuri; Mdachi, Mary; Gerald, Alex; Bakari, Kidunda; Devota, Mchau; Chilala, Rahma; Kadege, Edith; Kimisha, Joseph

Accelerated varietal turnover for open-pollinated crops ( beans, sorghum, groundnuts) in Tanzania – seed sector stakeholders’ landscaping. Baseline Report

Autores

Ochieng, Justus

Birachi, Eliud Abucheli

Descripción

The Accelerated Varietal Adoption and Turnover for Open-Pollinated Varieties (ACCELERATE) project in Tanzania aims at understanding the requirements and constraints of large and small/marketplace traders to catalyze the uptake of new varieties and how best to enable the needed partnerships across the formal, semi-formal, and informal seed sectors to accelerate varietal adoption and turnover. This is based on the demand-pull approach, in which seed largely comes from grain traders, who currently not only buy grain from small-scale producers but also supply the largest amount of planting material (seeds). Humanitarian agencies and non-government organizations (NGOs) equally create or catalyze this demand pull since they spend considerable resources on sourcing and distributing seeds to demanding and stressed areas.