1. Rasilimali Muhimu
    01-06-2014 When you come across an especially promising local variety of a crop grown in your area, how can you enable other farmers to try out this variety? If a farmer gives you 30 seeds of an exceptional variety, how might you go about distributing these? How does seed flow happen in and among...
  2. Rasilimali Muhimu
    01-01-2011 Often farmers asked for seed, but we weren’t quite sure what to expect when we suggested—to the farmers’ union in Nampula, Mozambique—that they organize a fair in which the members could come together and exchange seed. They might only be interested in “improved” varieties. However, when we...
  3. 26-04-2019 At ECHO’s 2014 International Agriculture Conference, Dr. Laura Meitzner Yoder gave a plenary talk titled “Planting Connections: Learning from local seed systems and fostering community seed exchange.” The talk was based on collaborative work that was done by the following: Rick Burnette, ECHO...
  4. Rasilimali kutoka Warsha ya utunzaji wa Mbegu ya Cambodia iliyofanyika Desemba 2-3 katika shamba la Ntuk Nti, Cambodia Programu ya Njaa (PHP-USA) ilifanya semina ya kutunza mbegu huko Sen Monorem, Mondulkiri mnamo Desemba 2-3, 2015. kuanzishwa kwa mifumo ya mbegu, mifumo ya mbegu PRA mbinu, na...
  5. 22-05-2017 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...
  6. Access Agriculture Video We farmers, men and women, have the right to sell our seeds, and to conserve and exchange them. If they would forbid us from marketing or selling our potato seed, this would simply end our lives, because that is what we depend on. Available languages Arabic Bambara Bemba...