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Smallholder Seed Security

Smallholder Seed Security is a condition-based concept in agrobiodiversity policy that denotes the sustained capacity of small-scale farming households to access, control, and utilize diverse, quality seeds adapted to local ecological and socio-economic conditions, thereby ensuring resilience, food sovereignty, and adaptive capacity in agricultural systems.

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2017–2026

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Seed systems smallholder farmers use

Shawn McGuire, Louise Sperling · Food Security · 2016 · 366 citations · Full text

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Farmers, seeds and varieties : supporting informal seed supply in Ethiopia

M.H. Thijssen, Abdurahman Beshit, Zewdie Bishaw et al. · Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling · 2008 · 81 citations · Full text

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Can cultivars from participatory plant breeding improve seed provision to small-scale farmers?

Conny Almekinders, Graham Thiele, D. L. Danial · Euphytica · 2006 · 80 citations

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Pluralistic Seed System Development: A Path to Seed Security?

Teshome Hunduma Mulesa, Sarah Paule Dalle, Clifton Makate et al. · Agronomy · 2021 · 66 citations · Full text

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Mistletoe specialist frugivores: latterday ‘Johnny Appleseeds’ or self-serving market gardeners?

David M. Watson, John Rawsthorne · Oecologia · 2013 · 64 citations

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Authors

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  1. SM
    Shawn McGuire

    University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 498 citations

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  2. LS
    Louise Sperling

    University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 447 citations

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  3. CA
    Conny Almekinders

    Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

    2 publications · 92 citations

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  4. ZB
    Zewdie Bishaw

    International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Syria

    2 publications · 93 citations

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  5. WS
    Walter Simon de Boef

    Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

    2 publications · 138 citations

    2

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Institutions

61

  1. University of East Anglia

    Norwich, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    446 citations

  2. International Potato Center

    Nairobi, Kenya

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    250 citations

  3. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    214 citations

  4. Charles Sturt University

    Bathurst, Australia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    172 citations

  5. Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology

    Arusha, Tanzania

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    88 citations

  6. Norwegian University of Life Sciences

    Ås, Norway

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    264 citations

  7. Dalton State College

    Dalton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    52 citations

  8. University of Denver

    Denver, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    28 citations

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Venues

  1. Agriculture & Food Security

    2 publications · 71 citations

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  2. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling

    SESMO · 2 publications · 93 citations

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  3. Euphytica

    2 publications · 113 citations

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  4. Economic Botany

    2 publications · 75 citations

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  5. Global Environmental Change

    1 publications · 29 citations

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