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Crowdsourcing crop improvement

Crowdsourcing crop improvement. Jacob van Etten. Issue. Climate change means farmers need to make their crops and cropping systems adapt to new conditions , quicker than ever before. Farmers rely on informal and formal seed systems to get access to seeds. Photo: P. Casier (CGIAR).

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Crowdsourcing crop improvement

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  1. Crowdsourcing crop improvement Jacob van Etten

  2. Issue • Climate change means farmers need to make their crops and cropping systems adapt to new conditions, quicker than ever before. • Farmers rely on informal and formal seed systems to get access to seeds. Photo: P. Casier (CGIAR).

  3. Seed system Almekinders et al.

  4. Issues to consider • 50% or more of all land is still not under modern varieties →unrealistic to change this in a few decades • Push models (credit+seed+other inputs) are not successful in marginal areas and can be hijacked by suppliers • Resilient, climate smart seed system combine the best from formal and local seed systems (more on that) • How do we scale up experiences in local seed systems (participatory plant breeding and variety selection, community seed banks, seed fairs, etc.)?

  5. Resilience • From “fail-safe” to “safe to fail” design.

  6. Resilience • Tight feed-back loops • Dynamic reorganization • Built-in countermechanisms • Decoupling, diversity, modularity • Simplicity • Swarming • Clustering + • _________________ • Resilience

  7. Tight feed-back loops

  8. Tight feed-back loops • Is information flowing back from farmers to seed producers, breeders, and genebanks? • Current model is mostly supply driven, with few opportunities for feed-back loops. • New ICTs provide opportunities for tighter feed-back to learn about demand, challenges farmers face, while getting impact at scale.

  9. Seeds4Needs

  10. Crowdsourced Crop Improvement

  11. Social learning • Crowdsourcing is cheap social learning • Constant circulation of information shapes opportunities to detect new demands and developments – which should be investigated using in-depth (phone) interviews, focus groups, ethnography, etc.

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