Rural Seed Fairs in Southern Tanzania
The low productivity of agricultural crops is among the factors leading to low income and food insecurity for rural people in the Southern Zone of Tanzania. The use of improved seeds is one way of increasing the productivity of agricultural crops....
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/04/2524256/rural-seed-fairs-southern-tanzania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10795 |
| Summary: | The low productivity of agricultural
crops is among the factors leading to low income and food
insecurity for rural people in the Southern Zone of
Tanzania. The use of improved seeds is one way of increasing
the productivity of agricultural crops. It was realized that
the seed supply pipeline from the seed-producing regions in
the Southern Zone was not flowing freely partly due to the
poor infrastructure prevailing in the zone. In the
conventional Transfer of Technology model (TOT), the seed
supply pipeline begins with research where breeding work is
done and ends with farmers who access a final product of
improved seeds/variety. The Multiple Sources of Innovations
Model acknowledges the contribution of informal seed
systems. Therefore, it is argued by development experts that
informal and formal seed/variety development experts can
complement each other and improve the supply of seeds of
preferred varieties to farmers better than each
expert's isolated efforts. |
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