Addressing Food and Nutrition Security
Better seeds lead to improved harvests. Quality seeds directly influence crop success, resulting in consistent, healthy, and plentiful harvests, regardless of the variety planted.
Putting More Choice in Farmers’ Hands
Farmers should have access to quality seeds of a broader spectrum of traditional and improved varieties. This can lead to more productive and resilient agriculture.
Empowering Women Across the Value Chain
To maximize the seed sector’s potential, it’s crucial to eliminate discrimination against women, empower them, and achieve equality between women and men.
Enhancing Agricultural Resilience
Through the availability of seeds of drought-resistant, pest-tolerant and climate-resilient crops, farmers can mitigate risks of changing environmental conditions.
Creating Wealth Through Enterprises
Seed production has the potential to serve as a significant avenue for wealth creation in Africa by empowering farmers and seed producers to transition into seed entrepreneurs.
Promoting Biodiversity and Sustainability
Both traditional and improved varieties can be adopted more widely if the seed systems deliver high quality seeds at the right time, in the right place.
Bringing Orphan Crops to Centre Stage
African agrobioversity sustains food and nutrition security of millions. Yet these crops are often overlooked. Investments in their seed systems should be prioritized.
Youth as the Future of Africa’s Seed Sector
The youth hold the key to the future of agriculture in Africa. It’s our responsibility to equip them with the tools they need to tackle the seed sector challenges ahead.
Driving Agricultural Transformation
Seeds serve as catalysts for agricultural transformation, driving increased production and productivity, harnessing agrobiodiversity and creating opportunities across Africa.
Making Development More Inclusive
Inclusive seed sector development recognizes the importance of considering all forms of diversity, such as individuals, communities, crops, ecologies and management systems.
