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Local seed trading in western Kenya
Local seed trading in western Kenya Report discusses important but largely unrecognized informal seed systems in Kenya and emerging possibility of more understanding of this sector. It provides an overview of our recent exploratory study on local seed traders (LSTs hereafter) and farmers or local seed customers (LSCs hereafter) in western Kenya where we made an initial attempt to understand this informal sector. During the study we found out that LSTs are traders who produce and/or buy local grains specifically for sale at the marketplaces and/or from their homesteads to be used as seed or food while LSCs buy local seeds/grains from LSTs for planting on their farms or to be used as food. ....View Report document
Case of Tissue Culture Bananas in Kisii District

This is a financial report of the pilot study on Biotechnology Knowledge Management in Sub-Saharan Africa, which was contracted to the Centre for African Bio-Entrepreneurship (CABE) by the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) in December 2006. View document
Thinking about local set-ups: Making sense of biotechnology in Kenyan agriculture
Paper presented at the Workshop on The Globalisation of Agricultural Biotechnology: Multi-disciplinary views from the South’, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick: 11-13 March 2005 Read paper
 
 
  
 

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