TY  - REP
AU  - Fergusen,J.E.
ED  - ILCA/ICARDA Research Planning Workshop on Seed Production by Smallholder Farmers. Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). 13-15 Jun 1994
TI  - Seed systems for small farmers. Vignettes from Latin America
SN  - 92-9053-2
U1  - 95-130101 
PY  - 1994///
KW  - America
KW  - Crops
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Enterprises
KW  - Euphorbiaceae
KW  - Farms
KW  - Gramineae
KW  - Manihot
KW  - Organization, administration and management of agricultural enterprises or farms
KW  - Oryza
KW  - Propagation materials
KW  - Seed production
KW  - Sets
KW  - Small enterprises
KW  - Zea
N1  - 1 table; ref. Summary (En)
N2  - Few small farmers have access to or use seeds of improved germplasm. This paper seeks to identify seed initiatives underway in the Latin American region and define some implications. A brief summary of current projects, including their documentation, is presented by commodity group. There is a need for both more information to be collected from case study analysis and research on seed systems. The IARCs have a definite role to play to complement their germplasm development efforts and participate in technology transfer and institutional building/bridging. In the actual project environment, IARCs can play a complementary-facilitator role to other institutions. Areas of particular concern with forage projects include the implications of novel species, real demand for seed, congruence between forage and seed objectives, environmental requirements of priority species, seed production within farming/cropping systems and the nature of the project environment, including the need for promoting market demand
ER  -