{"id":2850,"date":"2022-01-26T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seedsystemsgroup.org\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2022-01-26T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:51:09","slug":"a-ground-breaking-partnership-by-seed-systems-group-and-cornell-university-to-catalyze-sustainable-seed-supply-in-haiti-and-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/2022\/01\/26\/a-ground-breaking-partnership-by-seed-systems-group-and-cornell-university-to-catalyze-sustainable-seed-supply-in-haiti-and-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ground-breaking Partnership by Seed Systems Group and Cornell University to Catalyze Sustainable Seed Supply in Haiti and Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seedsystemsgroup.org\/\">Seed Systems Group<\/a>, through a partnership led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornell.edu\/\">Cornell University&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ilci.cornell.edu\/2022\/01\/20\/new-initiative-catalyzes-sustainable-seed-systems-from-caribbean-to-the-atlantic\/\">Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement,<\/a> has received funding from USAID\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedthefuture.gov\/\">Feed the Future<\/a> initiative to help develop local systems for the supply of improved, climate-resilient seed in Haiti and S\u00e9n\u00e9gal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ILCI is currently supporting national crop breeding initiatives in Haiti through Quisqueya University and in Senegal through the <em>Institut S\u00e9n\u00e9galais de R\u00e9cherches Agricoles<\/em> (ISRA). The newly-funded set of activities will allow the initiative to reach farmers through local, sustainable seed supply channels involving local, private seed producers, groups of women farmers, and the supply of small sample packs of improved seed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-2884\" data-id=\"2884\" src=\"https:\/\/seedsystemsgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-19-at-14.06.44-1024x766.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-2887\" data-id=\"2887\" src=\"https:\/\/seedsystemsgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-13-at-13.09.27.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-2852\" data-id=\"2852\" src=\"https:\/\/seedsystemsgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-25-at-21.12.44-1024x766.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-2853\" data-id=\"2853\" src=\"https:\/\/seedsystemsgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-01-21-at-09.38.03-1024x768.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative will drive investment in three primary areas which lie downstream from standard crop breeding activities, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Farmer-participatory crop breeding and early-generation seed supply,<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>T<\/strong><strong>he establishment and growth of private seed enterprises, and<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Broadly raising farmer awareness of the value of improved crop varieties.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Women have critical roles in seed selection, dissemination, and sale in both countries. Addressing the gender dimensions of the seed value chain will therefore be embedded in the research process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haiti and Senegal are an ocean apart, geographically, but share a common dependency on rain-fed, smallholder agriculture to supply the bulk of their food and income. Climate change has likewise had negative effects on both countries \u2013 as droughts in Senegal and more frequent and devastating storms in Haiti. Efforts aimed at improving food security have made meaningful investments in the institutions and science needed to increase the productivity of their farmers, and both are likewise open to private sector-driven solutions to poverty and under-nutrition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SSG will provide technical assistance and oversight through its team of experts with vast experience in crop breeding, development of African seed systems, and raising farmer awareness of the value of improved seed.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seed Systems Group is excited to partner with ILCI, Quisqueya University, and ISRA in this initiative to develop sustainable seed supply systems to improve food security and livelihoods of small holder farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seed Systems Group, through a partnership led by Cornell University&#8217;s Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement, has received funding from USAID\u2019s Feed the Future initiative to help develop local systems for the supply of improved, climate-resilient seed in Haiti and S\u00e9n\u00e9gal. ILCI is currently supporting national crop breeding initiatives in Haiti through Quisqueya University and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850"}],"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=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/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=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.seedsystemsgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}