The concept of technology adoption (along with its companions, diffusion and scaling) is
commonly used to design development interventions, to frame impact evaluations and to …

Food systems face new climatic and socioecological challenges and farmers need a
diversity of new plant varieties to respond to these. While plant breeding is important …

This review of the literature on varietal change in sub‐Saharan Africa looks in detail at
adoption of new varieties of bananas in Uganda, cassava in Nigeria, potato in Kenya …

Seed systems research is central to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals. Improved varieties with promise for ending hunger, improving nutrition, and …

Over recent decades international agricultural research has shown that it can generate
agricultural technologies with benefits for societies in the Global South that outstrip the …

A breeding consortium to realize the potential of hybrid diploid potato for food security |
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With the prioritization of social inclusion in agricultural development, donors and research
centers have shown growing interest in gender-intentional varietal development and …

Accessible, high-quality seed is vital to the agricultural, food, and nutrition sovereignty
needed for justice-based sustainable development. Multiregion, interdisciplinary research …

CONTEXT Quality vegetable seed has the potential to significantly impact nutrition security
in sub-Saharan Africa, as the region has the world's lowest per capita production and …

Abstract In Eastern and Southern Africa, as the public sector has retreated from maize seed
production and the private sector has emerged to fill the resulting void, a key issue for …