Strengthening Community Seed Banks for Gender inclusive development in India
The formal seed system in India mainly includes seeds of notified varieties and important crops, predominantly produced for markets. However, it faces challenges in meeting the diverse crop and varietal needs of small and women farmers in marginal agroecosystems. Most importantly, formal seed system...
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CGIAR Initiative on Seed Equal
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| author | Rengalakshmi, Raj Puskur, Ranjitha Pratheepa, C. M. Gopinath, R. Tenneti, Suchaita Bomuhangi, Allan |
| author_browse | Bomuhangi, Allan Gopinath, R. Pratheepa, C. M. Puskur, Ranjitha Rengalakshmi, Raj Tenneti, Suchaita |
| author_facet | Rengalakshmi, Raj Puskur, Ranjitha Pratheepa, C. M. Gopinath, R. Tenneti, Suchaita Bomuhangi, Allan |
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| description | The formal seed system in India mainly includes seeds of notified varieties and important crops, predominantly produced for markets. However, it faces challenges in meeting the diverse crop and varietal needs of small and women farmers in marginal agroecosystems. Most importantly, formal seed systems have less space for women to access preferred varieties, knowledge, market potential, and institutional linkages due to existing gender norms. Women have also not been actively participating and making decisions on the use of improved varieties in food systems. They largely depend on informal seed systems to access seeds. However, with changing agrarian relations and structures, informal seed systems face challenges in ensuring equitable access to traditional and community-preferred landraces or varieties from informal social networks, connections, and exchanges. At the field level, these changes adversely impact women and marginal farmers’ access to preferred crops and varieties/ landraces, gender relations, food and nutrition security, dietary diversity, food systems resilience, and livelihoods. Against this backdrop, the Community Seed Banks (CSB) model has evolved as an important component in the informal seed system to ensure access to traditional varieties of different crops, specifically neglected and under-utilized crop species. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1516032025-11-06T17:25:25Z Strengthening Community Seed Banks for Gender inclusive development in India Rengalakshmi, Raj Puskur, Ranjitha Pratheepa, C. M. Gopinath, R. Tenneti, Suchaita Bomuhangi, Allan food crops women farmers gender varieties seed systems community seed banks The formal seed system in India mainly includes seeds of notified varieties and important crops, predominantly produced for markets. However, it faces challenges in meeting the diverse crop and varietal needs of small and women farmers in marginal agroecosystems. Most importantly, formal seed systems have less space for women to access preferred varieties, knowledge, market potential, and institutional linkages due to existing gender norms. Women have also not been actively participating and making decisions on the use of improved varieties in food systems. They largely depend on informal seed systems to access seeds. However, with changing agrarian relations and structures, informal seed systems face challenges in ensuring equitable access to traditional and community-preferred landraces or varieties from informal social networks, connections, and exchanges. At the field level, these changes adversely impact women and marginal farmers’ access to preferred crops and varieties/ landraces, gender relations, food and nutrition security, dietary diversity, food systems resilience, and livelihoods. Against this backdrop, the Community Seed Banks (CSB) model has evolved as an important component in the informal seed system to ensure access to traditional varieties of different crops, specifically neglected and under-utilized crop species. 2024-01 2024-08-09T13:57:12Z 2024-08-09T13:57:12Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151603 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Initiative on Seed Equal Rengalakshmi, R., Puskur, R., Pratheepa, C. M., Gopinath, R., Tenneti, S. and Bomuhangi, A. (2024). Strengthening Community Seed Banks for Gender inclusive Development in India. M S Swaminathan Research Foundation and International Rice Research Institute | Research Report, MSSRF-IRRI Research Report 2024-001, India. 60 p. |
| spellingShingle | food crops women farmers gender varieties seed systems community seed banks Rengalakshmi, Raj Puskur, Ranjitha Pratheepa, C. M. Gopinath, R. Tenneti, Suchaita Bomuhangi, Allan Strengthening Community Seed Banks for Gender inclusive development in India |
| title | Strengthening Community Seed Banks for Gender inclusive development in India |
| title_full | Strengthening Community Seed Banks for Gender inclusive development in India |
| title_fullStr | Strengthening Community Seed Banks for Gender inclusive development in India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strengthening Community Seed Banks for Gender inclusive development in India |
| title_short | Strengthening Community Seed Banks for Gender inclusive development in India |
| title_sort | strengthening community seed banks for gender inclusive development in india |
| topic | food crops women farmers gender varieties seed systems community seed banks |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151603 |
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