非洲种子部门的综合发展：在国家种子计划中调整方法

IF 6.1 1区农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Agricultural Systems Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI:10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104368

Walter Simon de Boef , Marja Helen Thijssen , Gareth Denis Borman , Cecile Kusters , Mirjam Schaap , Abishkar Subedi , Mohammed Hassena , Dandena Gelmesa , Nugus Kassa , Tadesse Teshome , Dawit Tsegaye Sisay , Abdo Woyema , Astrid Mastenbroek , Geoffrey Otim , Patrick Oyee , Christine Menya , Chinedu Agbara , Ibidun Adetiloye , Stephen Adigun , Bankole Osho-Lagunju , Folarin Okelola

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摘要

背景2007/2008年粮食危机之后，农业和粮食安全重新出现在全球发展议程上。种子部门因其在提高作物生产力和使作物适应气候变化方面的潜力而成为优先事项。从那时起，瓦赫宁根大学；在“种子部门综合发展”（ISSD）的指导下，研究部门与合作伙伴合作，在埃塞俄比亚、乌干达和尼日利亚实施了国家种子计划，该计划承认并支持农民获得种子的多种种子系统。目的：本研究对埃塞俄比亚、乌干达和尼日利亚国家种子项目的特点进行了描述和分析，这些项目是由WUR与国家合作伙伴共同管理和实施的，并为未来的设计提供了启示。方法本研究是围绕与参与这些国家种子项目的资源人员的访谈进行的。他们在结果中描述了这些项目，并使用ISSD原则和部门框架，对ISSD原则和部门职能与这些结果的相关性进行了排名。该排名在排名理由的支持下，为项目的特征和分析提供了输入。结果与结论虽然ISSD原则在这三个国家的应用是相似的，但种子部门的现实情况、机会和目标不同。在埃塞俄比亚和乌干达，这些项目参与了当地种子企业的发展，帮助农民生产和销售各种作物的优质种子，并加强了种子质量保证和早期种子供应。这三个国家的项目都与多种类型的种子企业家合作，从当地种子企业到国际种子公司。这些项目采用以证据为基础的创新方法，加强种子部门的有利环境，并让多个利益攸关方参与评估挑战、试点创新以及整合和扩大解决方案。从这些项目中吸取教训，适时地更新了ISSD原则，包括部门框架的关键属性。经修订的原则反映了从描述正式和非正式制度的二元立场向承认多种种子制度的更加多元化立场的转变；种子市场和种子部门治理领域内部门职能之间的相互依存关系；从行业发展到行业转型的适应，在追求的方向上更有目的性。其目的是使更新后的原则能够启发和指导未来的种子项目、实践和政策。

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Integrated seed sector development in Africa: Adaptation of the approach in national seed programs

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Integrated seed sector development in Africa: Adaptation of the approach in national seed programs

CONTEXT

Following the 2007/2008 food crisis, agriculture and food security re-emerged on the global development agenda. The seed sector became a priority for its potential in raising crop productivity and adapting crops to climate change. Since then, Wageningen University & Research, in collaboration with partners, has been implementing national seed programs in Ethiopia, Uganda and Nigeria, guided by ‘integrated seed sector development’ (ISSD) that recognizes and supports multiple seed systems through which farmers obtain their seed.

OBJECTIVE

The study characterizes and analyzes features of national seed programs in Ethiopia, Uganda and Nigeria that have been managed and implemented by WUR together with national partners, and that draw upon insights for future design.

METHOD

This study has been structured around interviews with resource persons involved in these national seed programs. They characterized the programs in outcomes and ranked the relevance of ISSD principles and sector functions to those outcomes, using the ISSD principles and a sector framework. The ranking, supported by the justification for the ranking, provided inputs to the characterization and analysis of the programs.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS

While the application of ISSD principles has been similar in the three countries, the seed sector realities, opportunities and ambitions differ. In Ethiopia and Uganda, the programs engaged in the development of local seed businesses, with groups of farmers producing and marketing quality seed of a range of crops, and strengthened seed quality assurance and early generation seed supply. The programs in all three countries worked with multiple types of seed entrepreneurs, from local seed businesses to international seed companies. The programs used an evidence-based approach to innovation for strengthening an enabling environment in the seed sector, and engaged multiple stakeholders in assessing challenges, piloting innovations, and consolidating and scaling solutions.

SIGNIFICANCE

Learning from the programs, an update of ISSD principles, including key attributes of the sector framework, emerged as opportune. The revised principles reflect the move from a binary position delineating formal and informal systems to one that is more pluralistic in recognizing multiple seed systems; the interdependency between sector functions within the domains of seed markets and seed sector governance; and the adaptation from sector development to sector transformation, which is more intentional in terms of the direction pursued. The aim is that the updated principles inspire and guide future seed programs, practices and policies.

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Agricultural Systems 农林科学-农业综合

CiteScore

13.30

自引率

7.60%

发文量

174

审稿时长

30 days

期刊介绍： Agricultural Systems is an international journal that deals with interactions - among the components of agricultural systems, among hierarchical levels of agricultural systems, between agricultural and other land use systems, and between agricultural systems and their natural, social and economic environments. The scope includes the development and application of systems analysis methodologies in the following areas: Systems approaches in the sustainable intensification of agriculture; pathways for sustainable intensification; crop-livestock integration; farm-level resource allocation; quantification of benefits and trade-offs at farm to landscape levels; integrative, participatory and dynamic modelling approaches for qualitative and quantitative assessments of agricultural systems and decision making; The interactions between agricultural and non-agricultural landscapes; the multiple services of agricultural systems; food security and the environment; Global change and adaptation science; transformational adaptations as driven by changes in climate, policy, values and attitudes influencing the design of farming systems; Development and application of farming systems design tools and methods for impact, scenario and case study analysis; managing the complexities of dynamic agricultural systems; innovation systems and multi stakeholder arrangements that support or promote change and (or) inform policy decisions.