Seed multiplication by resource-limited farmers
Subtitle: proceedings of the Latin American Workshop, Goiâna, Brazil, 7-11 April 2003.
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Series: FAO plant production and protection paper,; 180; FAO plant production and protection papers ;; 180.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Seed technology -- Congresses.; Farms, Small -- Government policy -- Congresses.; Seed supply -- Congresses.; International relief -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: FAO, through its Seed and Plant Genetics Resources Service, is conducting a series of workshops to generate ideas, develop methodologies and facilitate initiatives aimed at strengthening on-farm seed multiplication (the informal seed system), thereby addressing the seed security needs of smallholder farmers. The informal seed system in Latin America receives inadequate attention from policy-makers. FAO organized the Latin American Workshop on Seed Multiplication by Resource-limited Farmers to identify the major constraints facing on-farm seed production and the groups of resource-limited farmers to be targeted, and to propose solutions for increasing the availability of good quality seed to small-holder farmers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"TC/M/Y5706E/1/11.04/1350"--P. [4] of cover.