Resources Tagged: Seed Sources

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  1. Seed banks and seed swaps - focusing worldwide on healthy local seed systems

    2017-05-22 Seed availability for small-scale farmers can be unpredictable and unreliable. Commercial products are often out of reach financially or geographically and can lead to loss of biodiversity. ECHO's seed banks provide sample packets of seeds to evaluate for potential crop production in challenging...
    Seeds Seed Fair Seed Bank Seed Exchange Seed Sources Seed Saving

  2. Strengthening Informal Indigenous Seed Systems in Southeast Asia

    With support from USAID’s Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program (Hort CRSP), Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization’s Asia Impact Center (ECHO Asia), Maejo University, Thailand, and the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) initiated efforts in 2010 to begin strengthening...
    Seed Sources Asia

  3. Introducing New Seeds Overseas

    Key Resource
    2000-01-21 ECHO is frequently asked, by groups or individuals from North America, to suggest vegetable seeds to take with them on short trips overseas. Often the group is a “work team” that is being sent by a church. Someone with the group they are going to visit has asked them to bring vegetable seeds. Or...
    Seeds Gardening Seed Selection Seed Sources Vegetables

  4. Seed2Save: An ‘Old School’ Approach to Vegetable Seed Development

    2018-11-15 To empower persons working among rural farmers and gardeners in developing nations. One limiting factor is the availability of affordable quality seed of varieties well suited to the climate and culture. Seed2Save is Mike’s approach to make selections of open-pollinated varieties within target...
    Seed Sources Seeds Random Mass Selection Population Breeding

  5. Cornucopia II

    Key Resource 1998-11-20 Complete reference and source book of edible plants of the world, invaluable to gardeners, cooks, economic botanists, those in the specialty and gourmet foods business. Includes 3,000 species and 7,000 varieties of food plants. More than 1300 catalog sources for seeds, plants and food products...
    Germplasm Seed Sources Edible Plants plants Varieties Food Crops

  6. Filsan Somalia

    Producing and Marketing Quality & Superior Seed Varieties to Somali Farmers Our vision is to lead the Somali agricultural sector in providing appropriate and affordable seed alongside complementary technologies in support of farming as a business.
    Seed Sources East Africa

  7. FM 1999 LEISA Magazine Vol 15 #3-4

    1999-12-19 Seeds for agrobiodiversity Collaboration Biodiversity i agriculture Genes Seed shortages threaten organic farming Bean Seed systems Genetic variability in rice Seed selection Genetic resources conservation Seed fairs Andean tubers
    Organic Farming Tubers Crop Genetics Beans Agrobiodiversity Seed Sources Genetic Resources

  8. Seeds, Weeds, and Pests

    This seed cleaner was developed in Afghanistan to remove round seeds of weeds from wheat grains. The round seeds could not be separated by a sieve because they were the same size as the wheat grains. The cleaner described here takes advantage of the round shape of the weed seeds to separate them...
    Downloads VITA Pest Management Pests Weed Management Weeds Seeds Seed Sources

  9. Vetiver Plant Suppliers

    TVNI has created a list of vetiver plant suppliers who have demonstrated the ability to nursery propagate vetiver plants and offer them for sale in their countries and regions. They all multiply Vetiver,C. zizanioidesand are able to ship planting material on demand. TVNI does not set the prices...
    Seed Sources Plant Propagation Plant Suppliers Vetiver Grass

  10. C - Onion Seed Production Techniques – Olani Nikus (M. Sc.) and Fikre Mulugeta (M. Sc.)

    Onion ((Allium cepa) is a recently introduced crop to Ethiopia. The release of a variety from introduced materials (from Sudan) has marked the beginning of extensive production of onion in the country. Ever since the crop is distributed to different parts of the country and is now become an...
    Downloads FAO ZAS Seed Production Seed Sources Onions