• Overall goal: create a profitable, sustainable
forage seed industry to increase seed and
livestock feed leading to adaptation to
climate change
• Method: provide technical and business
knowledge and skills to develop sustainable
seed companies and promote certification to
improve quality
FeedSeed Business Model: PPP Approach
We implement activities in logical sequence
Client recruitment
Technical &
business training
On-farm support
services
Networking &
market linkages
Photos taken by Teklu Kidane/ILRI
Pilot outcomes so far:
• 30 seed producers identified, trained and started forage
seed production
• 14 clients harvested and/or are harvesting seeds
• Training on how to produce, process and market forage
seeds provided to 106 development experts
• Eden Field Agri-seed PLC provides demonstration site
• Market linkages between forage seed companies and
rural commercial farm service centers
Regional distribution of project clients
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Expansion of FeedSeed project would lead
to the following results with in the next five
years:
• At least 100 additional seed businesses trained and
mentored
• At least 60 additional successful forage seed
businesses established
• At least 20 new or existing seed cooperatives
producing seeds add forage seeds to their portfolio
of crop seeds
• By year 5, at least 150 tons of forage seed per year
produced by seed companies
• At least 150,000 poor households keeping livestock
trained in seed and forage production
• At least 100,000 poor livestock keepers buy seed and
produce forage and feed their livestock better
• At least 1,250,000 livestock keeping household
members benefit by feeding their livestock better
• Seed quality improved through certification program
• At least 50% of the livestock keeping women are
trained in forage seed production and marketing
ILRI-GIZ FeedSeed Pilot Project: Outcomes and scaling-up
Practical training to project clients
By: Barry I. Shapiro, Alexandra Jorge, and Jean Hanson/ILRI
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