Linking up: The role of institutions and farmers in forage seed exchange networks of Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, access to improved forages remains a challenge for smallholder farmers and limits livestock production. We compared seed exchange networks supporting two contrasting livestock production systems to identify bottlenecks in seed availability and determine the influences of the marke...
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| author | Leyte, James Elwyn D. Delaquis, Erik Van Dung, Pham Douxchamps, Sabine |
| author_browse | Delaquis, Erik Douxchamps, Sabine Leyte, James Elwyn D. Van Dung, Pham |
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| description | In Southeast Asia, access to improved forages remains a challenge for smallholder farmers and limits livestock production. We compared seed exchange networks supporting two contrasting livestock production systems to identify bottlenecks in seed availability and determine the influences of the market, institutions, and cultural context of seed exchange, using interview-based methods for ‘seed tracing’ and network analysis. Government agencies were the primary sources of high-quality genetic materials, with secondary diffusion in the Philippines dairy case being dominated by key individuals in active cooperatives. In the Vietnamese beef-oriented production context, farmer to farmer dissemination was more substantial. In both cases, formal actors dominated where botanical seed was exchanged, while farmers frequently exchanged vegetatively propagated materials among themselves. To improve access to forage seed in these contexts, government agencies and development actors should coordinate quality seed production upstream while supporting the creation of appropriate training, structures, and incentives for seed exchange network improvement downstream. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1155472025-11-11T17:41:26Z Linking up: The role of institutions and farmers in forage seed exchange networks of Southeast Asia Leyte, James Elwyn D. Delaquis, Erik Van Dung, Pham Douxchamps, Sabine genetic resources seeds analysis forage seed systems recursos genéticos semillas análisis forrajes sistemas de semillas anthropology ecology In Southeast Asia, access to improved forages remains a challenge for smallholder farmers and limits livestock production. We compared seed exchange networks supporting two contrasting livestock production systems to identify bottlenecks in seed availability and determine the influences of the market, institutions, and cultural context of seed exchange, using interview-based methods for ‘seed tracing’ and network analysis. Government agencies were the primary sources of high-quality genetic materials, with secondary diffusion in the Philippines dairy case being dominated by key individuals in active cooperatives. In the Vietnamese beef-oriented production context, farmer to farmer dissemination was more substantial. In both cases, formal actors dominated where botanical seed was exchanged, while farmers frequently exchanged vegetatively propagated materials among themselves. To improve access to forage seed in these contexts, government agencies and development actors should coordinate quality seed production upstream while supporting the creation of appropriate training, structures, and incentives for seed exchange network improvement downstream. 2022-02 2021-10-20T14:30:11Z 2021-10-20T14:30:11Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115547 en Open Access application/pdf Springer Leyte, J.D.; Delaquis, E.; Van Dung, P., Douxchamps, S. (2021) Linking up: The role of institutions and farmers in forage seed exchange networks of Southeast Asia. Human Ecology, Online first paper (16 October 2021). ISSN: 0300-7839 |
| spellingShingle | genetic resources seeds analysis forage seed systems recursos genéticos semillas análisis forrajes sistemas de semillas anthropology ecology Leyte, James Elwyn D. Delaquis, Erik Van Dung, Pham Douxchamps, Sabine Linking up: The role of institutions and farmers in forage seed exchange networks of Southeast Asia |
| title | Linking up: The role of institutions and farmers in forage seed exchange networks of Southeast Asia |
| title_full | Linking up: The role of institutions and farmers in forage seed exchange networks of Southeast Asia |
| title_fullStr | Linking up: The role of institutions and farmers in forage seed exchange networks of Southeast Asia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Linking up: The role of institutions and farmers in forage seed exchange networks of Southeast Asia |
| title_short | Linking up: The role of institutions and farmers in forage seed exchange networks of Southeast Asia |
| title_sort | linking up the role of institutions and farmers in forage seed exchange networks of southeast asia |
| topic | genetic resources seeds analysis forage seed systems recursos genéticos semillas análisis forrajes sistemas de semillas anthropology ecology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115547 |
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