Promoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services

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dc.creatorCecchi, Francesco
dc.creatorAredo, Samson Dejene
dc.creatorKivuva, Benjamin
dc.creatorOmondi, Simon
dc.creatorChegeh, Joseph
dc.creatorTabalia, Amos
dc.creatorKramer, Berber
dc.date2019-12-30
dc.date2024-06-21T09:04:45Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:04:45Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:42:57Z
dc.descriptionSmallholder farmers may suffer losses from ex-treme weather events, pests and disease. This is expected to worsen in the face of climate change. Natural disasters are a threat to food security not only ex post, by inducing farmers to sell their as-sets, keep children out of school or borrow at high rates; they also threaten livelihoods ex ante, by discouraging farmers from investing in high-return practices and technologies (Elbers et al., 2007). Fortunately, significant progress has been made in the past two decades in developing and releasing seeds with genetic traits that are more tolerant to weather shocks, pests and disease. These im-provements in seed technology are offering prom-ising pathways to improve farmers’ adaptive ca-pacity, increasing investments and thereby agri-cultural productivity (Emerick et al., 2016).
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/145624
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/112594
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134491
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134938
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceCecchi, Francesco; Aredo, Samson Dejene; Kivuva, Benjamin; Omondi, Simon; Chegeh, Joseph; Tabalia, Amos; and Kramer, Berber. 2019. Promoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services. Project Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145624
dc.subjectinsurance
dc.subjectadvisory services
dc.subjectseeds
dc.subjecttechnology
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.subjectinformation and communication technologies
dc.subjectsmart materials
dc.titlePromoting seed systems for stress-tolerant varieties at scale: Potential for bundling with insurance-advisory services
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