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ILRI News on seeds

28 Aug 2020

ILRI Forage Genebank supports development of improved forage varieties to increase livestock productivity in Ethiopia

Alieu Sartie in the seed storage cold room at the ILRI forage genebank (photo credit:ILRI/Apollo Habtamu) The recent release of the CGIAR Genebank Platform 2019 annual report highlights that, for the third year in a row, germplasm distribution to requesters outside of the CGIAR exceeded that to...

Ekta PatelScientist & Communications Manager - Biosciences

AVCD program blog

27 Mar 2020

Promoting better agricultural practices of drought-tolerant crops in farming communities

Makueni Ventures chairman, John Ndiso in the farm in Emali, Makueni County. Photo Credit AVCD/Muthoni Njiru Makueni Agribusiness Ventures is a 10-member farmer group that participated in an AVCD funded good agricultural practices (GAPs) and modern farming training lead by ICRISAT. The group has a...

Muthoni NjiruCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

ILRI News

30 Aug 2019

Buffelgrass: a drought-tolerant bunchgrass

Buffelgrass growing in a field trial in Bishoftu, Ethiopia (photo credit: Ricardo Sanchez Gutierrez/Ethiopia). Buffelgrass ( Cenchrus ciliaris L.) is a bunchgrass that grows in clumps, it can transform deserts into grasslands. It is one of the most popular forage species and is extensively grown...

Ekta PatelScientist & Communications Manager - Biosciences

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Publications on seeds

Brief

Published2021

Mobile seed cleaning and treatment unit improves forage seed quality and quantity and presents a successful business model for farmer cooperatives

Journal Article

Published2021

Genomic resources to guide improvement of the shea tree

Report

Published2021

Characterisation of the livestock production system and potential for enhancing productivity through improved access to forage seed value chain in Wakiso District, Uganda

Book Chapter

Published2020

Production of high-quality tropical forage legume seeds

Brief

Published2020

Gender dynamics in seed systems development

Journal Article

Published2020

Morphological characterization of buffelgrass with potential for forage and seed production

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ILRI Projects on seeds

Mar 2019Mar 2022

Feed and Forage Seed Business Models to Support Further Professionalization of the Dairy Sector in Kenya and Uganda

The project aims to ‘Develop viable business models for forage seed production and marketing that assure economically sustainable access to high-quality forage seed to diverse clients’. International, national and local seed entrepreneurs, dairy farmers and national and international researchers...