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 disseminatin...
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| Format: | Case Study |
| Language: | Inglés |
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2017
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121451 |
| Summary: | 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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