{"id":1651,"date":"2019-09-19T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seedsystemsgroup.org\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2019-09-19T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:04:43","slug":"qa-the-private-sectors-role-in-getting-improved-seeds-to-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/19\/qa-the-private-sectors-role-in-getting-improved-seeds-to-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: The Private Sector\u2019s Role In Getting Improved Seeds To Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/authors\/1322350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sara Jerving<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ACCRA, Ghana&nbsp;\u2014 Across the African continent, national agricultural research systems are developing seed varieties more durable to withstand drought, disease, and pests, as well as producing higher yields. But after the seeds are developed, a challenge remains \u2014 getting them to farmers\u2019 fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A<a href=\"https:\/\/seedsystemsgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SSG-Launch-Report-web.pdf\">report<\/a>&nbsp;published last&nbsp;month&nbsp;by the Seed Systems Group&nbsp;found that if one-third of the farmers in the 15 African countries it analyzed obtained improved seeds,&nbsp;they could generate an additional 25 million metric tons of food, worth $4 billion over 5-7 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/q-a-the-private-sector-s-role-in-getting-improved-seeds-to-farmers-95574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Sara Jerving&nbsp; ACCRA, Ghana&nbsp;\u2014 Across the African continent, national agricultural research systems are developing seed varieties more durable to withstand drought, disease, and pests, as well as producing higher yields. But after the seeds are developed, a challenge remains \u2014 getting them to farmers\u2019 fields. Areport&nbsp;published last&nbsp;month&nbsp;by the Seed Systems Group&nbsp;found that if one-third of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}