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This brief highlights efforts in East Africa and in Asia, Pacific and Oceania (APO), supported by two internationally funded projects, to develop user-friendly tools and methods to identify germplasm of populations/varieties/species that are adapted to the changing climates of areas where farmers...


Halewood, MichaelMathur, P.N.Fadda, CarloOtieno, G.[Using crop diversity to adapt to climate change: highlighting the importance of the Plant Treaty's policy support]Using crop diversity to adapt to climate change: highlighting the importance of the Plant Treaty's policy support

Between 2012 and 2015, 150 researchers, research managers, gene bank managers, extension agents, university professors and staff of non-government organizations from Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe acquired new knowledge and s...


Vernooy, RonnieOtieno, G.Bessette, G.Fadda, CarloGalluzzi, G.Gevel, J.M.J. van deHalewood, MichaelLópez Noriega, I.Mathur, P.N.Mittra, S.Rudebjer, P.G.Steinke, J.Sthapit, B.R.Etten, Jacob vanZonneveld, Maarten van[A novel strategy to discover and use climate-adapted germplasm]A novel strategy to discover and use climate-adapted germplasm

This policy briefs presents smallholder farmers' preferences and major challenges when accessing seed in Uganda. It reflects on the weaknesses of the formal and informal seed production and distribution systems and presents some practical recommendations for putting in place alternative and integ...


Otieno, G.López Noriega, IsabelReynolds, Travis W.[Smallholder access to quality and diverse seed in Uganda: implications for food security]Smallholder access to quality and diverse seed in Uganda: implications for food security

Application of the open source concept to seeds has a promising future. It reverses the logic of the intellectual property system with a renewable stock of open source material kept outside the exclusive intellectual property realm. Legal defensibility may currently be uncertain, but as open sour...


Louafi, S.Westphal, I.Montenegro, M.Manzella, D.Otieno, G.Steigerwald, S.Kloppenburg, J.[Open Source for seeds and genetic sequence data: Practical experience and future strategies]Open Source for seeds and genetic sequence data: Practical experience and future strategies

This Policy Brief is a result of a series of national and regional stakeholder consultations and a policy write shop on the establishment and maintenance of Open Source Seed Systems that ensure inclusivity of farmers and enhance freedom to develop, access, and use plant genetic materials. The bri...


Otieno, G.Westphal, I.[Building resilience through “Open Source Seed Systems” for climate change adaptation in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania: What are the options for policy?]Building resilience through “Open Source Seed Systems” for climate change adaptation in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania: What are the options for policy?

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