Seed value chain development in the Global South: key issues and new directions for public breeding programs

Where CGIAR breeding programs rely on the private sector for the multiplication and distribution of improved cultivars, persistent challenges have dampened their impact on varietal adoption and turnover rates. Part of the problem is that research and practice in CGIAR and among its national breeding...

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Autores: Donovan, J., Rutsaert, P., Spielman, D., Shikuku, K.M., Demont, M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:México
Institución:Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional de Publicaciones Multimedia del CIMMYT
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Palabra clave:AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
SEED
VALUE CHAINS
BREEDING PROGRAMMES
PUBLIC-PRIVATE COOPERATION
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spelling Seed value chain development in the Global South: key issues and new directions for public breeding programsDonovan, J.Rutsaert, P.Spielman, D.Shikuku, K.M.Demont, M.AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGYSEEDVALUE CHAINSBREEDING PROGRAMMESPUBLIC-PRIVATE COOPERATIONWhere CGIAR breeding programs rely on the private sector for the multiplication and distribution of improved cultivars, persistent challenges have dampened their impact on varietal adoption and turnover rates. Part of the problem is that research and practice in CGIAR and among its national breeding program partners tend to treat the private sector as a vehicle for seed delivery, rather than as commercial businesses facing a range of unique constraints and threats. This paper adopts a value chain framework to examine these relationships and pathways for improved varietal adoption/turnover outcomes in three cases: hybrid maize, farmed fish, and rice. In the first two cases, weak incentives and high risks left seed companies reluctant to invest in the marketing and quality assurance efforts needed to realize near-term impacts at scale from breeding investments. In the third case, seed companies played an insignificant role: grain traders supplied certified seed to smallholders, potentially prioritizing consumers’ quality preferences over climate-resilience and stress-tolerance traits for farmers. The findings raise important questions about the role of CGIAR and national breeding programs; specifically, how these programs can effectively support the private sector to deliver impact at greater scale, how consumer preferences are captured in trait prioritization within breeding programs, and what types of incentive mechanisms can be changed within breeding programs to advance a genuine shift towards ‘demand-oriented’ plant breeding.366-377SAGE Publications2021-12-09T01:15:18Z2021-12-09T01:15:18Z2021Published Versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10883/2176410.1177/003072702110595514500030-7270Outlook on Agriculturereponame:Repositorio Institucional de Publicaciones Multimedia del CIMMYTinstname:Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigoinstacron:CIMMYTEnglishUnited KingdomCIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purposeOpen Accessinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repository.cimmyt.org:10883/217642024-10-11T19:55:59Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Seed value chain development in the Global South: key issues and new directions for public breeding programs
title Seed value chain development in the Global South: key issues and new directions for public breeding programs
spellingShingle Seed value chain development in the Global South: key issues and new directions for public breeding programs
Donovan, J.
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
SEED
VALUE CHAINS
BREEDING PROGRAMMES
PUBLIC-PRIVATE COOPERATION
title_short Seed value chain development in the Global South: key issues and new directions for public breeding programs
title_full Seed value chain development in the Global South: key issues and new directions for public breeding programs
title_fullStr Seed value chain development in the Global South: key issues and new directions for public breeding programs
title_full_unstemmed Seed value chain development in the Global South: key issues and new directions for public breeding programs
title_sort Seed value chain development in the Global South: key issues and new directions for public breeding programs
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Donovan, J.
Rutsaert, P.
Spielman, D.
Shikuku, K.M.
Demont, M.
author Donovan, J.
author_facet Donovan, J.
Rutsaert, P.
Spielman, D.
Shikuku, K.M.
Demont, M.
author_role author
author2 Rutsaert, P.
Spielman, D.
Shikuku, K.M.
Demont, M.
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
SEED
VALUE CHAINS
BREEDING PROGRAMMES
PUBLIC-PRIVATE COOPERATION
topic AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
SEED
VALUE CHAINS
BREEDING PROGRAMMES
PUBLIC-PRIVATE COOPERATION
description Where CGIAR breeding programs rely on the private sector for the multiplication and distribution of improved cultivars, persistent challenges have dampened their impact on varietal adoption and turnover rates. Part of the problem is that research and practice in CGIAR and among its national breeding program partners tend to treat the private sector as a vehicle for seed delivery, rather than as commercial businesses facing a range of unique constraints and threats. This paper adopts a value chain framework to examine these relationships and pathways for improved varietal adoption/turnover outcomes in three cases: hybrid maize, farmed fish, and rice. In the first two cases, weak incentives and high risks left seed companies reluctant to invest in the marketing and quality assurance efforts needed to realize near-term impacts at scale from breeding investments. In the third case, seed companies played an insignificant role: grain traders supplied certified seed to smallholders, potentially prioritizing consumers’ quality preferences over climate-resilience and stress-tolerance traits for farmers. The findings raise important questions about the role of CGIAR and national breeding programs; specifically, how these programs can effectively support the private sector to deliver impact at greater scale, how consumer preferences are captured in trait prioritization within breeding programs, and what types of incentive mechanisms can be changed within breeding programs to advance a genuine shift towards ‘demand-oriented’ plant breeding.
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