Seed Info No. 34

cg.contactz.bishaw@cgiar.orgen_US
cg.contributor.centerInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDAen_US
cg.contributor.funderInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDAen_US
cg.contributor.projectCommunication and Documentation Information Services (CODIS)en_US
cg.contributor.project-lead-instituteInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDAen_US
cg.coverage.countryEGen_US
cg.coverage.countryETen_US
cg.coverage.countryIQen_US
cg.coverage.countryMAen_US
cg.coverage.countryPKen_US
cg.coverage.countryTRen_US
cg.coverage.countryAFen_US
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionWestern Asiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.idBishaw, Zewdie: 0000-0003-1763-3712en_US
cg.subject.agrovocbiotechnologyen_US
cg.subject.agrovocfood securityen_US
cg.subject.agrovocpartnershipsen_US
cg.subject.agrovoctechnologyen_US
cg.subject.agrovoccapacity buildingen_US
cg.subject.agrovoctrainingen_US
cg.subject.agrovocconferencesen_US
cg.subject.agrovocherbicidesen_US
cg.subject.agrovocbarleyen_US
cg.subject.agrovocfaba beanen_US
cg.subject.agrovocwheaten_US
cg.subject.agrovoclentilen_US
cg.subject.agrovocchickpeaen_US
dc.creatorBishaw, Zewdieen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-29T08:16:20Z
dc.date.available2018-01-29T08:16:20Z
dc.description.abstractSeed Info aims to stimulate information exchange and regular staff in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region. The purpose is to help strengthen national seed programs, and thus improve the supply of quality seed to farmers. For most of the history of agriculture, farmers were engaged in domestication of crops. This was a slow process but over many generations of conscious and unconscious selection, it led to significant modification of many of our crop plants from their wild ancestors. The process of domesticating crops will continue as we are looking for new products and economic opportunities in a changing global agriculture and markets. In the NEWS AND VIEWS section, Bert van Duijn and Henrie Korthout from Fytagoras BV, present new crops targeting market opportunities in the horticulture sector in the Netherlands. For example, horticulture growers wish to produce new, higher-value crops for new (or existing) markets. These new crops may be functional foods targeted to specific target groups such as obesity or hyperactive children with learning problems. There is also news from Iowa State University, the International Seed Federation, and on Turkey’s accession to the Union for the Protection of New Plant Varieties (UPOV) convention. The section on SEED PROGRAMS includes news from Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iraq and Pakistan. The news from Afghanistan focuses on a seed fair organized by the FAO Seed Project in Herat and an Agricultural Fair organized by Development Alternative Inc. in Jalalabad. From Ethiopia, we describe the just concluded Tailor Made Training Program implemented by the Ethiopian Seed Enterprise, Wageningen International and ICARDA to strengthen farmer-based seed production. From Iraq we report on the ongoing capacity building efforts for the rehabilitation and development of the national seed industry. From Pakistan, we report on the performance of the public and private seed sectors based on recent statistics released by the Federal Seed Certification and Registration Department. The RESEARCH section aims to capture information on adaptive research or issues relevant to seed program development in the region and beyond. Asrat Asfaw from the Southern Agricultural Research Institute writes about seed relief intervention and the resilience of local seed system under stress in southern Ethiopia.en_US
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dc.identifierhttps://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/downloadmelspace/hash/2EcQG2zq/v/943bacadbfdd219d46791361fa8d8cf0en_US
dc.identifier.citationZewdie Bishaw. (18/3/2008). Seed Info No. 34. Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).en_US
dc.identifier.statusOpen accessen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/7713
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)en_US
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-4.0en_US
dc.subjectnew improved varietiesen_US
dc.subjectseed networken_US
dc.subjectcoursesen_US
dc.subjectscienceen_US
dc.subjectnew varietiesen_US
dc.titleSeed Info No. 34en_US
dc.typeNewsletteren_US
dcterms.available2008-03-18en_US

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