The informal seed business: Focus on yellow bean in Tanzania
This article explores the informal seed business, focusing on the yellow bean in Tanzania. The yellow bean is a major bean type traded, yet little is known about the seed supply that fuels it. The survey research in 2019 encompassed larger grain traders, informal seed traders, and retailers, covered...
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| author | Sperling, Louise Birachi, Eliud Abucheli Kalemera, Sylvia Monica Mutua, Mercy Muli Templer, Noel Anyuka Mukankusi, Clare Radegunda, Kessy Francis Williams, Magdalena Gallagher, Patrick Kadege, Edith Rubyogo, Jean-Claude |
| author_browse | Birachi, Eliud Abucheli Gallagher, Patrick Kadege, Edith Kalemera, Sylvia Monica Mukankusi, Clare Mutua, Mercy Muli Radegunda, Kessy Francis Rubyogo, Jean-Claude Sperling, Louise Templer, Noel Anyuka Williams, Magdalena |
| author_facet | Sperling, Louise Birachi, Eliud Abucheli Kalemera, Sylvia Monica Mutua, Mercy Muli Templer, Noel Anyuka Mukankusi, Clare Radegunda, Kessy Francis Williams, Magdalena Gallagher, Patrick Kadege, Edith Rubyogo, Jean-Claude |
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| description | This article explores the informal seed business, focusing on the yellow bean in Tanzania. The yellow bean is a major bean type traded, yet little is known about the seed supply that fuels it. The survey research in 2019 encompassed larger grain traders, informal seed traders, and retailers, covered major production, distribution and sale hubs, and was complemented by GIS mapping of seed and grain flows and DNA fingerprinting of yellow bean samples. Results showed that traders buy and sell grain and informal seed: it is not one business or the other, but both. Informal seed is an important moneymaker, representing between 15 and 40% of trader business in non-sowing and sowing periods, respectively. In the year monitored, 100% of the yellow bean seed was drawn from the informal sector, amounting to $US 4.35 million just among those sampled. Nevertheless, the informal and formal sectors are clearly linked, as over 60% of the beans sampled derived from modern varieties. Informal traders prove key for: sustaining the grain business, serving the core of the seed business, and moving varieties at scale. More explicit efforts are needed to link the informal sector to formal research and development partners in order to achieve even broader impacts. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1270692025-11-11T18:55:46Z The informal seed business: Focus on yellow bean in Tanzania Sperling, Louise Birachi, Eliud Abucheli Kalemera, Sylvia Monica Mutua, Mercy Muli Templer, Noel Anyuka Mukankusi, Clare Radegunda, Kessy Francis Williams, Magdalena Gallagher, Patrick Kadege, Edith Rubyogo, Jean-Claude common beans informal sector business enterprises seeds trade informal seed business traders seed sector development This article explores the informal seed business, focusing on the yellow bean in Tanzania. The yellow bean is a major bean type traded, yet little is known about the seed supply that fuels it. The survey research in 2019 encompassed larger grain traders, informal seed traders, and retailers, covered major production, distribution and sale hubs, and was complemented by GIS mapping of seed and grain flows and DNA fingerprinting of yellow bean samples. Results showed that traders buy and sell grain and informal seed: it is not one business or the other, but both. Informal seed is an important moneymaker, representing between 15 and 40% of trader business in non-sowing and sowing periods, respectively. In the year monitored, 100% of the yellow bean seed was drawn from the informal sector, amounting to $US 4.35 million just among those sampled. Nevertheless, the informal and formal sectors are clearly linked, as over 60% of the beans sampled derived from modern varieties. Informal traders prove key for: sustaining the grain business, serving the core of the seed business, and moving varieties at scale. More explicit efforts are needed to link the informal sector to formal research and development partners in order to achieve even broader impacts. 2021-08-09 2023-01-13T15:06:28Z 2023-01-13T15:06:28Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127069 en Open Access application/pdf MDPI Sperling, L.; Birachi, E.; Kalemera, S.; Mutua, M.; Templer, N.; Mukankusi, C.; Radegunda, K.; William, M.; Gallagher, P.; Kadege, E.; Rubyogo, J.C. (2021) The informal seed business: Focus on yellow bean in Tanzania. Sustainability 13: 8897. ISSN: 2071-1050 |
| spellingShingle | common beans informal sector business enterprises seeds trade informal seed business traders seed sector development Sperling, Louise Birachi, Eliud Abucheli Kalemera, Sylvia Monica Mutua, Mercy Muli Templer, Noel Anyuka Mukankusi, Clare Radegunda, Kessy Francis Williams, Magdalena Gallagher, Patrick Kadege, Edith Rubyogo, Jean-Claude The informal seed business: Focus on yellow bean in Tanzania |
| title | The informal seed business: Focus on yellow bean in Tanzania |
| title_full | The informal seed business: Focus on yellow bean in Tanzania |
| title_fullStr | The informal seed business: Focus on yellow bean in Tanzania |
| title_full_unstemmed | The informal seed business: Focus on yellow bean in Tanzania |
| title_short | The informal seed business: Focus on yellow bean in Tanzania |
| title_sort | informal seed business focus on yellow bean in tanzania |
| topic | common beans informal sector business enterprises seeds trade informal seed business traders seed sector development |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127069 |
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