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Resources Tagged: Seed Sources

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  1. List of Short Season Crops Appropriate for Haiti

    2016-10-26 This document was originally prepared in response to hurricane Matthew in 2016. As organizations are responding to Hurricane Matthew damage in Haiti and in other parts of the Caribbean, they are developing short, medium, and long term plans of how to respond. With much of the damage in Haiti...
    Disaster Mitigation Annual Cropping Sy... Seeds Seed Sources Latin America and ...

  2. Highlight 10 Favorite Seeds from ECHO's Seed Bank

    2015-10-06
    Seeds Seed Sources Asia

  3. TN #39 Introducing New Seeds Overseas

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    2000-01-21 ECHO is frequently asked, by groups or individuals from North America, to suggest vegetable seeds to take with them on short trips overseas. Often the group is a “work team” that is being sent by a church. Someone with the group they are going to visit has asked them to bring vegetable seeds. Or...
    Vegetables Seed Sources Seed Selection Gardening Seeds

  4. Seed Provision & Agricultural Development

    2001-01-20 Many of the current controversies over globalization, intellectual property protection, biotechnology and the future of farming are played out in seed provision. This book examines seed management in traditional farming systems, reviews the history of formal plant breeding and the origins of seed...
    Seed Sources Seeds Seed Industry & Trade Agricultural innov...

  5. Seed banks and seed swaps - focusing worldwide on healthy local seed systems

    2017-05-22 Seed availability for small-scale farmers can be unpredictable and unreliable. Commercial products are often out of reach financially or geographically and can lead to loss of biodiversity. ECHO's seed banks provide sample packets of seeds to evaluate for potential crop production in challenging...
    Seeds Seed Fair Seed Bank Seed Exchange Seed Sources Seed Saving

  6. Strengthening Informal Indigenous Seed Systems in Southeast Asia

    With support from USAID’s Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program (Hort CRSP), Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization’s Asia Impact Center (ECHO Asia), Maejo University, Thailand, and the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) initiated efforts in 2010 to begin strengthening...
    Seed Sources Asia

  7. Seed2Save – an ‘old school’ approach to vegetable seed development

    2018-11-15 To empower persons working among rural farmers and gardeners in developing nations. One limiting factor is the availability of affordable quality seed of varieties well suited to the climate and culture. Seed2Save is Mike’s approach to make selections of open-pollinated varieties within target...
    Seed Sources Seeds Random Mass Selection Population Breeding