Building Competitive and Sustainable Seed Systems
This subcomponent was initially intended to finance interventions across six thematic areas:
- Producing and maintaining early generation seed and promoting improved seed, especially of high-value traditional crops;
- Strengthening seed, breed, and fingerling production systems;
- Developing and strengthening alternative delivery systems for high-value traditional seed and open pollinated varieties (OPVs);
- Catalyzing the growth of competitive seed retail networks;
- developing and advocating a conducive legal, regulatory, and institutional framework for seeds, breeds, and fingerlings;
- Supporting national public-private dialogue (PPD) platforms on seeds, breeds, and fingerlings.
The focus has however been substantially scaled down and resources downscaled to focus on three invention areas:
- producing and maintaining early generation seed and promotion of improved seed; (ii) strengthening seed, breed and fingerlings production systems; and
- developing and strengthening alternative delivery systems for high value traditional seeds and OPVs.