CGIAR Seed Equal Webinar

24 October 2024. 3:00 to 4:00 pm East Africa Time. CGIAR Seed Equal Webinar

This webinar shall present an innovative, market-focused model called Demand-Led Seed Systems (DLSS) approach, developed by the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) (pabra-africa.org), that has been mainstreamed by the CGIAR Research Initiative on Seed Equal on legumes. 

• Jean Claude Rubyogo, Global Bean Program Leader, Alliance of Bioversity-CIAT and PABRA Director will discuss the DLSS approach as a business-to-business model involving seed producers and traders supported by other key value chain actors. 
• The presentation shall be followed by insights from DLSS partners who have benefited from it.

For more information: Event page + Initiative page

This Initiative is working to support delivery of quality seed of improved varieties that are climate-resilient, market-preferred, and nutritious, providing farmers with a high rate of genetic gain while ensuring equitable access for women and other disadvantaged groups.

Specific partners include AGRA, Wageningen University Research, Seed NL, TAAT, Syngenta Foundation Seeds2B, Resonanz Grop, New Markets Lab, The Seed System Group, Universities of Florida and Wits, and others.

3-year outcomes include:

1. Seed systems actors including, but not limited to, seed companies, seed entrepreneurs, farmer-based organizations, women’s organizations, and community-based organizations develop their capacities to produce and deliver increased quantities of quality seed of improved varieties in selected countries, geographies, and market segments.
2. Seed system actors promote uptake of quality seed of new improved varieties derived from breeding programs by women and men farmers in selected countries, geographies, and market segments.
3. Increased number of public and private early generation seed enterprises are playing their roles more effectively by adopting models that reduce their cost and increase their output in selected countries, geographies, and market segments.
4. Government partners actively promote policy solutions to accelerate varietal turnover, adoption and quality seed use by women and men in selected countries, geographies, and market segments.
5. Governments, funders, researchers, and extension staff use new tools to be developed for monitoring varietal turnover and quality seed use.