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…

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. 

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

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. 

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

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…