Dicamba is meant to replace Monsanto's previous herbicide/genetically modified seed system that was based on the weed killer glyphosate, also known as Roundup.
This result calls into question the effects of plant breeding, seed system organization and seed regulation on wheat genetic diversity, especially in the context of current environmental changes.
Subhash Adhikari is one of 70 smallholder wheat farmers in the Chitwan district of Nepal benefitting from the Seed System Initiative, implemented by Cornell's Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat (DGGW) project in 2017-18.
The cooperative law is believed to degrade the social cohesion and the mutual support on which vulnerable farmers rely when facing climatic and non-climatic risks whereas the new seed system is found onerous and unaffordable for farmers.
The paper provides a finite set of indicators to inform policymaking on seed system design and monitoring, and explores how these indicators can be used to inform current policy debates in the region.
Public, private, and civil society actors involved in shaping policy designs have, in turn, developed competing narratives around how best to build an innovative and sustainable seed system, each with varying goals, values, and levels of influence.
It is difficult for the seed system to maintain a larger number of varieties than to maintain one or two varieties, so once a mega variety becomes dominant there is a decline in the number of varieties grown.
Field surveys have revealed that fielders mostly sow fractions of grains bought for food, or seeds saved from previous harvests, obtained as gifts from other fielders, exchanged or simply procured through the formal seed system mainly from seed shops [5].
The findings suggest that for increased adoption, there is need for increased involvement of extension workers is the dissemination of information about improved pigeonpea varieties, a robust pigeonpea seed system to increase seed availability to farmers as well as the need for improved access to credit.
We could follow an emergency response team going to Madagascar to take measures against a desert locust invasion or go and document varieties of crop as part of a project designed to rebuild the national seed system within a country destroyed by conflict over decades, such as Afghanistan.
We could follow an emergency response team going to Madagascar to help implement the tool measures against desert locust invasion or go and document varieties of crop as part of a project designed to rebuild the national seed system within a country destroyed by conflict over decades, such as Afghanistan.
