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What is a key challenge to farmers' seed systems' resilience?
What is a key challenge to farmers' seed systems' resilience?
Why should a simplistic and fragmented approach of prescribing seeds replacement be cautioned?
Why should a simplistic and fragmented approach of prescribing seeds replacement be cautioned?
What is crucial to the continuing innovation and functioning of farmers' seed supply despite serious challenges?
What is crucial to the continuing innovation and functioning of farmers' seed supply despite serious challenges?
Why might interventions that restrict farmers to only traditional crops and varieties be problematic?
Why might interventions that restrict farmers to only traditional crops and varieties be problematic?
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What restricts the time for recovery in farmers' seed systems after recurring shocks?
What restricts the time for recovery in farmers' seed systems after recurring shocks?
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What is essential to making farmers' seed systems more resilient according to the text?
What is essential to making farmers' seed systems more resilient according to the text?
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What can help farmers make informed seed choices based on their unique criteria?
What can help farmers make informed seed choices based on their unique criteria?
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What is a key challenge faced by participatory plant breeding initiatives?
What is a key challenge faced by participatory plant breeding initiatives?
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What is crucial for improving farmers' capacities for seed selection and storage?
What is crucial for improving farmers' capacities for seed selection and storage?
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What is effective for diagnosis, surveillance, and disease management in smallholder farmer areas?
What is effective for diagnosis, surveillance, and disease management in smallholder farmer areas?
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What is essential for facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboration and capacity building for farmers?
What is essential for facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboration and capacity building for farmers?
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What can improve seed resilience and provide essential seed services, with proper governance and commitment?
What can improve seed resilience and provide essential seed services, with proper governance and commitment?
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What is the main challenge for seed production, according to the text?
What is the main challenge for seed production, according to the text?
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How can developing locally oriented seed enterprises help reduce costs?
How can developing locally oriented seed enterprises help reduce costs?
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What role do governments play in seed production, according to the text?
What role do governments play in seed production, according to the text?
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How can plant breeder's rights (PBR) help public breeders?
How can plant breeder's rights (PBR) help public breeders?
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What is necessary for long-term investment in breeding?
What is necessary for long-term investment in breeding?
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What can international cooperation help avoid in seed production policies?
What can international cooperation help avoid in seed production policies?
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What is the main factor necessary for international trade of agricultural products and variety release?
What is the main factor necessary for international trade of agricultural products and variety release?
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What is an advanced form of accreditation that provides lighter supervision and promotes seed quality?
What is an advanced form of accreditation that provides lighter supervision and promotes seed quality?
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Which systems have dependencies on the same three elements for resilience: diversity of plant genetic resources, functioning institutions, and innovation?
Which systems have dependencies on the same three elements for resilience: diversity of plant genetic resources, functioning institutions, and innovation?
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What can create intermediate forms, such as farmer groups producing good-quality seed in formal settings?
What can create intermediate forms, such as farmer groups producing good-quality seed in formal settings?
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Which type of seed systems may be limited in scope but can be quicker in their response to changes?
Which type of seed systems may be limited in scope but can be quicker in their response to changes?
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What is essential for obtaining new knowledge and staying up-to-date in the breeding process?
What is essential for obtaining new knowledge and staying up-to-date in the breeding process?
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What is the main recommendation for ensuring the resilience of seed systems and global food systems?
What is the main recommendation for ensuring the resilience of seed systems and global food systems?
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Why is the debate on whether formal or farmers’ seed systems are best considered unproductive?
Why is the debate on whether formal or farmers’ seed systems are best considered unproductive?
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What is emphasized as the basis for productive decision making on how to support policy objectives related to good seeds?
What is emphasized as the basis for productive decision making on how to support policy objectives related to good seeds?
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Why is it concluded that neither farmers’ nor formal seed systems have all the answers to the challenges ahead?
Why is it concluded that neither farmers’ nor formal seed systems have all the answers to the challenges ahead?
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What is highlighted as a key aspect for making seed systems more resilient?
What is highlighted as a key aspect for making seed systems more resilient?
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Why does the text emphasize the need for dynamic interventions to be context specific?
Why does the text emphasize the need for dynamic interventions to be context specific?
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Study Notes
- Breeding is an interdisciplinary process that requires collaboration between breeders, plant pathologists, agronomists, and molecular biologists.
- Public-private and public-public collaboration with universities and international research institutes is essential for obtaining new knowledge and staying up-to-date.
- Effective phytosanitary control authorities are necessary for international trade of agricultural products and for variety release and seed quality control.
- The cost of full seed certification and testing can be high, leading to a need for accreditation and quality management systems.
- The Quality Declared Seed (QDS) concept is an advanced form of accreditation that provides lighter supervision and promotes seed quality.
- Farmers use a variety of seed systems for different crops, formal and informal, which are dependent on the same three elements for resilience: diversity of plant genetic resources, functioning institutions, and innovation.
- Formal commercial seed systems can be quicker in their response to changes but may be limited in scope, while farmers' seed systems have existed since ancient times and have been resilient but face vulnerabilities.
- Creating a diversified, competitive seed sector and stimulating seed entrepreneurship can increase the resilience of formal seed systems.
- Interventions that blur the distinction between formal and informal seed systems can create intermediate forms, such as farmer groups producing good-quality seed in formal settings.
- National seed policies often focus only on formal seed systems, and debates at the international level may give the impression that one system is superior to the other, when in fact both formal and farmers' seed systems have dependencies on the same three elements.
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Test your knowledge on seed-transmitted diseases and formal seed systems. Explore the challenges and options for increasing the resilience of formal seed systems. Assess your understanding of the economic sustainability of seed production.
