#HappeningNow with #SeedEqual and TASAI

#SDG2 #SDG1 #Women #GenderedLens #SeedandYouth

🌱PROSSIVA🤝Seed Equal🌱

James Legg , co-lead of PROSSIVA, presents about PROSSIVA and Seed Equal Initiative at the meeting to discuss Progress and Emerging Issues towards full implementation of the Quality Assurance Process for VPCs.

#VPC #SeedEqual #PROSSIVA

So great to finally have the Cereal Seed Systems Team within the CIMMYT SAS program fully in place (in the room, online and in the field)!

What a journey of going from 3 to 17 team members in 5 years working on #AGG , #SPTA , #AVISA , #SMIA , #MarketIntelligence , #SeedEqual & more!

Exciting session on the CGIAR #GeneticInnovations initiatives at the #APBAConf2023 . Chris Ojiewo presents the #SeedEqual initiative and key areas of focus.

What a day of field-based learning with CIMMYT colleagues and collaborators, Jason Pieter Rutsaert & Mercy Mbugua-Muiruri about the wheat seed systems and varietal replacement issues. Undoubtedly, interesting things to unravel in future thru rigorous research studies
#seedequal #adoption

Seed Equal training: Improving seed delivery using the Seed Tracker app
' #Smallholder farmers face several problems, including a lack of information about improved varieties and access to quality #seeds of the same.'
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#CGIAR 's #SeedEqual Initiative & #TASAI developed and pilot-tested a set of #indicators that could measure inclusive access to seed, primarily for #women and #youth . Join the upcoming webinar to discuss and introduce the findings.

#SeedEqual #CGIAR #SDG5
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What challenges do #women & #youth face to access #qualityseed ? Join the webinar to discuss the findings of a pilot study led by #CGIAR 's #SeedEqual Initiative &#TASAI: 'Measuring inclusive access to quality seeds – the why, how and what next Webinar'.

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🌱 How to Access Seed 🌿

This is the question for the on-going training at #IITA in Ibadan in #Nigeria . A great mix of farmers, seed companies, extensionists, researchers & regulators are sharing ideas & learning about demand-driven seed systems for RTB crops. #SeedEqual CGIAR

Fantastic first day in Bihar looking at maize and wheat seed sales, distribution and marketing! Some original approaches!

First field trip of our new colleague Mercy Mbugua-Muiruri, great collaboration with Man$oor Dar and thanks for hosting BISA CIMMYT!

#MarketIntelligence #SeedEqual

Fostering agricultural advancement through strategic insights at the #SeedEqual Training in 🇹🇿 on VPC Seed Demand Estimation

From estimating seed demand to auction experiments & seed tracing tools to elevate seed production, quality & market dynamics.

#SeedSystems

DYK that CGIAR Genetic Innovation #initiatives on #seedequal and #marketinteligence organized their reflect meetings together ILRI.org campus in #Addis to improve touch points in their #theoryofchange and identify key reccomendations to take action? thx to all partners

କୃଷି ବିଭାଗ, ଓଡ଼ିଶା FICCI unveiled Krushi Odisha 2023! It was great to participate in inaugural day and be part of an intensive and critical technical discussion by the panelists on 'Sustainable seed systems' for the state@samarendumohant Arabinda K Padhee IRRI 🌾 #seedequal CGIAR

Bean breeding meeting started today in Kampala. It's been three years and there is need to review, reflect and plan our work to address breeding needs of our diverse clients in line with the CGIAR initiatives - Accelerated Breeding, SeedEqual, Market intelligence PABRA

#SeedEqual will work on #rice and #cassava in Vietnam
#Ourinitiatives #OneCGIAR #Vietnam

Thank you, Grace Nkukuu for showing us your farm and the intercropping of #maize and #beans , growing the new mottled bean variety Nyota🫘 PABRA #OneCGIAR Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT #SeedEqual KALRO

James Legg presents outcomes for a new phase of research on improving the seed systems of key food security crops in our global initiative #SeedEqual . This week's launch in Nairobi comes as conflict and supply chain issues lead to worldwide concern on food supply and prices.

Visiting #bean variety trials KALRO Thika station and the Delish and Nutri company with Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT seed systems specialist Jean-Claude Rubyogo. 🫘 The new bean variety Nyota contains extra iron and does not cause flatulence. 🚫 💨 #OneCgiar PABRA #SeedEqual

🌱'We can change Africa through legumes'

📢JCRubyogo #SeedEqual Lead on legume crops ignited this vision at #Nairobi workshop co-organized by partnerships & capacity-building led by Ajay Panchbhai

👉Discussions on seed production & ICT tools are ongoing. Stay tuned for more!

Wheat flour blending to reduce wheat imports, improve product nutritional quality & drive demand for dryland cereals. Great talk from Maria Itria Ibba at CIMMYT Science Week on new work for functional & consumer testing of blended flour products led by sarah wairimu kariuki 🌾 🍞 #SeedEqual