Food systems face new climatic and socioecological challenges and farmers need a
diversity of new plant varieties to respond to these. While plant breeding is important …

Seed potato degeneration, the reduction in yield or quality caused by an accumulation of
pathogens and pests in planting material due to successive cycles of vegetative …

The importance of seed provisioning in food security and nutrition, agricultural development
and rural livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity and germplasm conservation is well accepted by …

This book provides basic knowledge on how to produce, multiply and use propagation
material in seed potato production and supply systems world wide. Healthy, vigorous seed …

The major subsistence food systems of the world that feed resource‐poor populations are
identified and their capacity to supply essential nutrients in reasonable balance to the …

Although potato is considered to be one of the strategic crops for ensuring food security in
Ethiopia, the adoption of high yielding and disease tolerant improved potato varieties is low …

Climate change is predicted to have major impacts on small-scale farmers in Mexico whose
livelihoods depend on rain-fed maize. We examined the capacity of traditional maize seed …

Seed potato systems in East Africa are described and opportunities for improvement
identified on the basis of interviews with potato producers in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia …

Seed systems for roots, tuber, and banana (RTB) crops receive relatively little attention from
development-oriented research and commercial seed sector actors, despite their importance …

Seed security is central to crop production for smallholder farmers in developing countries,
but it remains understudied in relation to long-term seed sector development. Here, we …