With the objective to enhance the marketing of quality seed, three SPCs (Misoma Gudina, Abdi Gudina, and Jalela Bishan Babile) conducted mini-seed marketing at Guba Koricha woreda, Bube Kebele on May 1, 2019.

ISSD’s Oromia Unit facilitated a training of 32 professionals to support seed producer cooperatives in their management practices.

ISSD’s Oromia East Unit organised a workshop with key stakeholders to address pressing supply and marketing issues in Hararghe zones.

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The Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EAIR) and Regional Agricultural Research Institutes (RARIs) are key seed sector stakeholders. These institutes have a lead role in variety development, variety maintenance and quality EGS production. To support and strengthen their efforts ISSD provided a training to these organisations staff, highlighting the opportunities that the ISSD approach and…

Ensuring seed supply matches demand is a complex national process. Various institutional bottlenecks continue to result in farmers not getting seed of the varieties they want, while unused seed sits as carryover, degrading and potentially becoming unusable. ISSD and partners strive to address these challenges and our collaboration is yielding promising innovations.

Across 2018, regional and national seed sector stakeholders have engaged intensively, shaping an action agenda to transform the seed sector.

Nodal farmers’ role and motivations to exchange seed in their locality formed the topic of recent research. ISSD Tigray Unit facilitated a Wageningen University (Netherlands) researcher to conduct a seed social network analysis, concluding that while nodal farmer self-interest plays a role, community and neighbourly well-being remain important factors in engaging in seed exchange.