Nature-Positive Post-Harvest Seed Practices for Sustainable Community Seed Bank Development in Kenya

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2024-12-30

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Abdoul Aziz Niane, Seid Ahmed Kemal, Zewdie Bishaw, Anne Nyambok, Gloria Otieno, Lilian Aluso, Ronnie Vernooy, Celine Termote, Carlo Fadda. (30/12/2024). Nature-Positive Post-Harvest Seed Practices for Sustainable Community Seed Bank Development in Kenya.

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Access to high-quality, affordable seeds is vital for farmers to improve yields, produce better crops, and enhance nutrition. This is especially true for farmer-preferred open-pollinated cultivars, which often lack systematic quality assurance from the formal seed sector. To address this, the ICARDA-ALIANCE seed component under the Nature-Positive Solutions-CGIAR initiative focuses on source seed production to support Community Seed Banks (CSBs) in multiplying and distributing these cultivars. Modern breeding has advanced seed sector development, creating high-yielding varieties and hybrids. However, subsistence farmers often miss out on these benefits. Successful seed production requires maintaining variety identity, purity, good practices, and quality standards. In Kenya, smallholder farmers in Western regions rely on informal seed sources, including farm-saved seeds and CSBs. These often lack quality assurance, leading to poor yields and lower incomes, exacerbated by erratic weather patterns like unpredictable rainfall and hailstorms.

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breeding; development; diversification; production; seed; seeds; seed production; farmers; weather; varieties; quality; rainfall; quality assurance; high-yielding varieties; smallholder farmers; yields; community seed banks; finger millet; maize; sorghum; peanut; climbing bean (phaseolus coccineus)

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Niane, Abdoul Aziz  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0873-4394
 Kemal, Seid Ahmed  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1791-9369
 Bishaw, Zewdie  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1763-3712
 Otieno, Gloria  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2433-2996
 Vernooy, Ronnie  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8864-4892
 Termote, Celine  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3217-0226
 Fadda, Carlo  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3075-6207