Category: ISSD Ethiopia archive

Key actions to improve national seed quality identified

Poor quality seed is a key contributor to reduced productivity and thus food and livelihood insecurity. Smallholder farmers are particularly challenged by seed quality issues. Across the sector technical and capacity challenges persist. ISSD commissioned the Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands (KIT) to complete a study on seed quality control across Ethiopia. A total…

Nov 5, 2018
Field day highlights successes of PVS, crowdsourcing and scaling activities

As part of ISSD’s informal seed system project, close to 200 stakeholders, including a notably large share of female farmers gathered to learn evaluate and learn from 2017 scaling up activities as well as 2018 PVS and crowdsourcing work.

Oct 9, 2018
Exchange visits and field days highlighting key learning from crowdsourcing and PVS

ISSD’s Oromia South & West unit has facilitated crowdsourcing and PVS on multiple crops with over 400 farmers.

Oct 8, 2018
Better collaboration on production, marketing and SPC management

ISSD Amhara organised a collaborative workshop and training for Bureau of Agriculture staff from Farta woreda, and many cooperative representatives.

Oct 8, 2018
AGP & ISSD creating seed sector synergy

Different stakeholders are working to improve the seed system but lack strong partnership for synergetic effect.

Oct 8, 2018
Rapid gender assessments in SPCs

ISSD-OSE conducted rapid gender assessment in three Seed Producing Cooperatives (SPCs) of (Kolbe, Tuka Katara and Moti),

Sep 24, 2018
Analysing gender roles and preferences on soybean and chickpea

In collaboration with CASCAPE, ISSD Oromia South and West Unit organised an in-depth gender analysis in Tole and Wayu Tuka Districts of Oromia.

Sep 24, 2018
Piloting mini seed markets in Hararghe to solve seed marketing issues

BENEFIT-ISSD Ethiopia is engaged in many efforts to strengthen seed marketing. Here, the ISSD Oromia East unit shares lessons learnt in the latest innovative approach: mini-seed markets.

Sep 24, 2018
Training on data collection for gender and nutrition in Tigray

ISSD Tigray Unit organized a training program on gender, nutrition, Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS), Crowd Sourcing (CS) and data collection and recording techniques.

Sep 24, 2018
Regional seed core group on the road

The Amhara region seed core group members visited the project sites aimed in monitoring and evaluate of the status and implementation of the innovation projects and overall ISSD program Amhara unit activities. In line with this, presentations on the progress of project status, discussion on the overall project prestige and feedback on some obscurities were…

Sep 24, 2018