Use of tricot crowdsourced citizen science approach for variety trials increases access/availability of adapted seeds for 1.3 million Ethiopian farmers
The main innovation the use of the tricot crowdsourced citizen science approach for variety trials, which is a cost-effective way to massively test new climate-stress tolerant and nutritious crop varieties directly on farm, generating information about local adaptation/acceptability and disseminating the seeds in one go. ISSD-Ethiopia adopted this approach in its large-scale seed sector development programme and used the approach with 5,995 farmers, who subsequently shared seeds with others and created seed demand, affecting an estimated 1.3 million farmers.
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| Format: | Case Study biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2017-12-31
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| Subjects: | farmers, climate, adaptation, varieties, seeds, development, innovation, variety trials, information, demand, stress, sciences, acceptability, trials, citizen science, scale, who, variety, case studies, agrifood systems, rural development, |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121451 |
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