Insights for Innovation in seed product design and seed systems development
To ensure the production of rice seed that meets farmers’ and consumers’ needs and preferences, Africa Rice, in collaboration with the Central Agricultural Research Institute, is undertaking farmer and consumer surveys to determine the varieties of rice that should be introduced and promoted in the country.
The involvement of the Product Design Team (PDT) early in the breeding process has several benefits. Different end-user stakeholders in both grain and seed value chains are directly involved in the breeding program and can guide breeding teams on the diverse requirements they need from sorghum and pearl millet.
Pigeon pea is one of Kenya’s key grain legume crops for food security, particularly in arid and semi-arid areas due to its drought tolerance. Kenya currently produces about 107,117 t of pigeon pea, based on the mean of the past three years (FAOSTAT 2024), against a much higher demand. It is both a vegetable green pea as well as a dry grain.
By leveraging powerful data tools such as GloMIP, researchers and scientists can enhance the quality and competitiveness of their funding proposals, making them more compelling to donors and investors.
Bringing together more than 1,000 delegates from 75 countries, the highly anticipated event featured sessions on topics critical in shaping agri-solutions around the globe.
Seed product market segments (SPMSs) represent groups of farmers who share common seed product requirements. Currently, there are more than 600 SPMSs for all crops served by CGIAR breeding programs in the SPMS Database. Identifying a proposed market segment provides the basis for discussions between market intelligence researchers and crop breeding teams in CGIAR and national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) on the seed product required.
Seed product market segments (SPMSs) represent groups of farmers who share common seed product requirements. Currently, there are more than 600 SPMSs for all crops served by CGIAR breeding programs in the SPMS Database. Identifying a proposed market segment provides the basis for discussions between market intelligence researchers and crop breeding teams in CGIAR and national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) on the seed product required.
Tomatoes are an important cash crop for thousands of farmers in Western and Eastern Africa. In April 2023, World Vegetable Center in collaboration with the Market Intelligence Initiative, started efforts to incorporate tomato into the Seed Product Market Segments (SPSM Database).
Between January and November 2023, a multidisciplinary CIP team identified opportunities for refining the existing segmentation through enhanced application of the criteria for identifying seed product market segments (SPMSs), expanding the number of market segments for potato from 9 to 59.
The GloMIP Impact Opportunities Portal provides access to around 200 development and crop production indicators, measuring impact opportunities across five CGIAR Impact Areas, 45 crops (including 20 CGIAR crops) and 171 countries.
During a workshop held in March 2024, it was reaffirmed that habaneros are the most important pepper crop in West Africa.