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The Community of Practice of Seed Security Assessments for the Horn of Africa

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FAO has received funding from ECHO to build capacity for food and nutrition security programming in emergency and rehabilitation contexts on different aspects, including on seed security assessment. One way to develop this capacity is to improve knowledge exchange, broaden participation, provide accessible informational resources among the practitioners, and seek technical support from among a pool of practitioners. The ECHO project is therefore supporting and promoting this Community of Practice in four target countries of the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South-Sudan) to allow seed security practitioners to connect and learn from each other.
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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Sat, 11 Jun 2016 15:19:26 +0000
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Dear SSA all,

This is to let you know that the SSA brochure and Practitioner's Guide are now available online and in print. We shall be sending few print copies to FAO country offices (Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, Uganda and Rwanda). Meanwhile, please find below the URLs to download the electronic copy of the publications.

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Thu, 19 May 2016 06:19:56 +0000
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Dear members,

Greetings from SSA CoP secretariat. It has been a while for us to be in touch on seed security issues. I believe many of you have been a bit busy with various assignments since the beginning of the year. Having been out of touch for sometimes, we would like to provide you with a few updates bellow.

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:01:33 +0200
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Dear all,

We now have links to our SSA training materials which you can download and adapt for your training need. Just follow the links below:

* English: http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-security-capacity-building/project-components/seeds/manual-for-participants/en/
* French: http://www.fao.org/in-action/renforcement-des-capacites-pour-la-securite-alimentaire/volets-du-projet/semence/manual-for-participant/fr/

We shall also provide the training materials for SSA Data Management, Analysis and Reporting Training (SSA D-MART) as soon as they are put in the right format for sharing.

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:45:09 +0200
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Dear all,

Please find the Uganda SSA report at http://www.fao.org//in-action/food-security-capacity-building/resources/en/

Regards,

Joseph
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Joseph Mokorondere
Wed, 7 Oct 2015 11:23:09 +0300
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Dear Okidi,

Greetings please, it is good ideas and important discussions about El
Nino and Seed Aid. Despite of El Nino phenomenon occurs every 5-7 years,
its effects on agro environment in this millennium is a big concern.
Farmers’ experience and expectation for crop yield this year 2015 is
horrible due to terrible sun burn effects. Many farmers in South Sudan
complained of their crops have been burnt particularly in areas of Boma,
Kapoeta, and Ikwoto along borders with Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.
This terrible phenomenon will imposes higher risks of hunger especially
among the rural poor smallholder farmers who

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 06:57:53 +0200
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Dear SSA CoP Members,

Considering that the probability of El Nino is about 90%, and that many have prepared or are preparing to support farming population (See Simon Communication Below) in a number of ways;

1. Do you think it is appropriate to provide seed as a way of preparedness response? Why?

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:33:32 +0200
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Dear all,

Greetings from SSA CoP moderation office.

This is to bring to your attention that FAO is organizing a three-day Regional SSA Data Management, Analysis and Report training (D-MART) from 22nd to 24th September 2015. The training will take place in Kenya. Due to limited resources, FAO has taken to support only 12 participants in the region (Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Ethiopia). However, we would still take additional 8-10 participants on the basis that their organizations will fully fund their travels and stay during the training. Given the limited vacancy space, we would give priority to those

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Mon, 29 Jun 2015 12:46:32 +0300
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Dear all,

It is up-surd that wrong targeting of famers with development and humanitarian seed aid is taking place around us. This is what is happening in Uganda now
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Gulu-farmers-shun-cassava-stem-cuttings/-/688334/2768302/-/otb1btz/-/index.html

Key Question:

* Do you think we need such aid? If so,

* How do we improve?

Regards,

Joseph
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Yahoo!© E-mail Verification
Thu, 14 May 2015 21:11:37 -0700
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Dear Joseph skidI plese prepar big conference talks horn of africa seed qulaity because the last fI've yeares horn of afrIcan havent seed security thanks
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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Thu, 14 May 2015 11:17:55 +0300
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Dear all,

It is unfortunate that in the horn of Africa, some government don't care about the fate of famers by delivering poor quality seed. This is currently happening in my country (Ugandan) and I feel sorry for the poor famers - read more at http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Nebbi-leaders-reject-10-tonnes-of-beans/-/688334/2715662/-/i0f9tez/-/index.html

We must all rise up to fight this vice.

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Gloria Drajiru Adrole
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:59:11 +0300
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I feel blessed to be part of the team, and a spirit of belonging. I
was part of the SSA team in Uganda - West Nile region. I learnt a lot of
things during the assessment,

1- 98% of my communities in west Nile are small scale farmers.( most of
their minds is set around quarters not acres)
2 - Their main purpose is to grow crops for food not for sale. Selling is a
by the way.
3 - They have small land for cultivation. Especially in Terego county.
4 - 90% have never accessed seed aid and they

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:28:59 +0300
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Dear Patrick,

I welcome you to our SSA CoP on behalf of members.

Regards,

Joseph

From: patrick kiusya [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 10:24 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject:

I want to subscribe to membership of seed security assessments.
Thanks

Patrick Kiusya
Food Security Coordinator
Catholic Diocese of Kitui.

Mobile 0720 328 566

'its not enough to do things the right way, what is more important is to do things for the right reason'
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Roland Mugumya
Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:51:01 +0300
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I am happy to be a member of the Community of Practice of Seed Security

Assessments for the Horn of Africa, which is a network of practitioners
involved

in Seed Security Assessments at the

district, national and regional level, and are active in the humanitarian

and the seed sector.

I would like to communicate with other subscribers

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Yahoo!© E-mail Verification
Thu, 2 Apr 2015 03:37:39 -0700
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Dear Joseph Okidi i have received your Latter About SSA Of Horn of Africa After thanks our Organisation COSDA Will Send you As soon as Possible our Suggesation .Best regards Yakub Ali Hassan COSDA Program Manager [log in to unmask] +252615535176
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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Thu, 2 Apr 2015 12:12:26 +0300
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Dear all,

FAO through the EHO funded capacity building project (OSRO/GLO/303/EC) developed a number of SSA tools, training materials and supported SSA training and field work in South Sudan, Kenya, Somalia Ethiopia and Uganda in the horn of Africa

1. Who has ever used the SSA tools and training materials independently without my support? And how useful have these tools and training materials been to your organization in designing or improving your seed security/food security program?

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Wed, 4 Mar 2015 08:31:50 +0300
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Dear all,

Please find attached the summary of our last discussions. Others can be located at http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-security-capacity-building/project-components/seeds/strengthening-the-ssa-network/en/

Regards,

Joseph
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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:51:22 +0300
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Dear Daniel,

Thanks for bringing up post conflict situation in Kenya in relation to seed intervention. I partly agree with you, however, note that the input (seed) trade fairs/vouchers works well when the market in post conflict is functional. I believe in countries such as South Sudan, with almost no functional formal sector, in some locations conflicts disable the functionality of the market. In such cases, careful decisison need to be made and this could only be done when a proper seed security assessment is done.

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:17:12 +0300
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Dear Abdirahman,

Thanks for potting this interesting write up on the PROPOSED CHANGES TO SEED POLICY. I am interested to know who is behind this proposed seed policy changes in Africa? What I know about plant Variety Protection (PVP) laws is basically to protect the rights of plant breeders within the formal seed sector and I don't think it gas significant impact on the informal seed sector. We might only need to advocate for the protection of indigenous varieties. Sometimes it is the forces of demand and supply that add or remove a variety from circulation. Germplasm collection and preservation

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Mon, 9 Feb 2015 17:19:51 +0300
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Dear all,

BIG QESTION: One of the main recommendations of the Kenya SSA is that Government (THVCs program), FAO and NGOs should limit or completely stop Direct Seed Distribution (DSD) in the South Eastern Livelihood Zone of Kenya. Do you agree with this recommendation, why?

Regards,

Joseph

From: The Community of Practice of Seed Security Assessments for the Horn of Africa [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 11:47 AM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: New Year Greetings

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Mon, 9 Feb 2015 17:08:43 +0300
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Dear Arem,

Thanks for sharing with us the information about SSA training plan. Could you provide us with tentative dates for this training? Are you foreseeing actual assessment being conducted immediately after the training?

Regards,

Joseph

From: Arem, Alier [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 4:53 PM
To: The Community of Practice of Seed Security Assessments for the Horn of Africa
Subject: RE: New Year Greetings

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Yahoo!© E-mail Verification
Mon, 9 Feb 2015 05:00:08 -0800
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Dear Okidi Joseph thank you so much for the Update on Co-P Activity on SSSA in Uganda,Kenya,Malawi , the invormation Verey Important on we will be share Useful information About SSSA in Region thanks Yakub Ali Hassan COSDA Program manager
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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Fri, 6 Feb 2015 14:53:31 +0300
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Dear Laura,

Many thanks for sharing with us the update from FAO Somalia. We hope to get your wide experience shared with the CoP.

Regards,

Joseph

From: Cortada, Laura (FAOSO)
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 2:36 PM
To: The Community of Practice of Seed Security Assessments for the Horn of Africa
Subject: RE: New Year Greetings

Dear Joseph,

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Fri, 6 Feb 2015 11:47:21 +0300
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I send my sincere gratitude and greetings to all who managed to get to the New Year -2015. It has been a while without any discussion in our community of practice on seed security issues around the horn of Africa (HoA). I know end (2014) and beginning of 2015 had their tolls on our workload, but I believe we all got through. 

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Joseph Mokorondere
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:42:44 +0300
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The Community of Practice of Seed Security Assessments for the Horn of
Africa

Please, I am glad that you have taken up this important and seed
challenging topic on-line discussion. It is good that I am just a day old,
from a recent field post distribution monitoring conducted on groundnut
seeds distributed this year by ICRC at outreach villages in South Sudan.
One of the responses got on the groundnut variety was “the seeds were
viable but shrivelled not sorted out and after germination plant vigor
raises eye brows by most farmers because some groundnut plants show
weaker performance on

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Mr.Ahmedey
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:17:09 +0200
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Dear all,

From our experience,the seed interventions in Somalia are entirely aimed at reaching people who are very much vulnerable in both rainfed and riverine areas and despite they may not be subject matter specialists they have vast knowledge on what type of varieties to grow however they are not given the opportunity to participate the type of seeds and varieties they need besides this it repeatedly occurred that seeds have been distributed later after the target beneficiaries have planted their farm plots.Meanwhile,the procurement of the seeds is not open and repeatedly granted to certain companies who claim to be

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Miss Khadija Isman
Thu, 7 Aug 2014 10:28:44 +0200
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Dear All,
We Action for Women and Child Concern(AWCC)Somalia have seen the problem of seeds distributed to small holder farmers as seeds aid and mostly ending up spoiled or leading further losses so unless a coordinated efforts to prevent such mistakes are there, this practice will continue unabbetted.
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Yahoo!© E-mail Verification
Wed, 6 Aug 2014 07:35:22 -0700
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Dear Freinds All who Attanded unsuitble crop from FAO UN Program i am Verey Glad to sending you my Massege and greeting you Best regards Yakub Ali Hassan COSDA Program manager [log in to unmask] Telphone +252615535176/ +254722217728
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Mustaf \abdihamid
Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:55:30 +0300
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*Dear Joseph Okidi *

Thanks Joseph for sharing these information SDIO Society Development
Initiative Organisation Our operating area are:

1) Middle Juba , especially Sakow district ( has River rain area and
rain fail area

2) Bay especially Qansan.Dheere and Diinsor Farmer depend for rain only

3) Bakool especially Tiyeeglow

*SDIO* willing to take part this discussion concern seeds for poor quality
and need to provide them with quality seeds.

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AW-MOS DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF ORGANIZATION
Mon, 4 Aug 2014 07:06:29 -0700
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1. Yes, I do. actually, in Somalia unsuitable  varieties of seeds are provided in form of aid which is very popular because the local farmers are not consulted on how seeds should be distributed. Farmers are more knowledgeable  than some seed aid distributors. ADRO recommends that farmers should be included in the processes of seeds aid provisions.  ADRO organization has witnessed these cases in South and Central Somalia. And to improve, ADRO advise that seeds aid distributions should be participatory process where all stakeholders have to share all he related information of seeds aid provisions. 2. No, I do not 

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Yahoo!© E-mail Verification
Fri, 1 Aug 2014 06:24:28 -0700
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Dear Joseph, Community settlement & Development Action (COSDA) working in Gedo region. we are directly engaged with issues of seed quality or seed security & how to seed quality to the farmers of Gedo region 1.Donor organization are to make seed test germination  . good seed gives good food . good food help the people. 2.Buy from the guarantee company seeds 3. stop seed buying  in Somalia 4. confirm certified company seal sticker 5. keep on checking what farmers normally plant 6. Soil survey Yakub Ali COSDA Programme Manager [log in to unmask] 252615535176/254722217728
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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:43:51 +0300
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Dear All,

A lot of humanitarian and recovery work in food security in the Horn of Africa region involves provision of seed aid with significant direct seed distribution of seed sourced from the formal sector (seed companies). There have been concerns from some of the assisted famers in the recent past that some of the varieties are unsuitable (un-adapted and un-preferred). Many times famer's seed are considered of poor quality by humanitarian actors, and therefore, the need to provide them with quality seeds of varieties which are improved - high yielding, disease resistant, drought tolerant etc.

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AAWDO
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:33:00 +0100
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Dear Administrator As we are Afgoye Alifow Women Development Organization (AAWDO) is one of the local Somali NGOs legally registered and serving to the Lower Shabelle region population particularly for the women grassroots who are farmers and their children as well as to eradicate the poverty which is the most thing/issue that can cause to the people to displace from their territory and also develop their children with the basic education as to become empowered. We have also various experiences that AAWDO is engaged in currently in Benadir region such as Institutional Feeding project supported by UNWFP and Community Enhancement 

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Miss Khadija Isman
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:20:37 +0200
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We Action for Women and Child Concern(AWCC)Somalia are legally registered not for profit nongovernmental organization of grassroots people in Lower Shabelle initiative working to eradicate poverty,illiteracy and inequalities and empower women and children to reach their full potential.We have diverse experience in different issues that we are engaged and we are very much pleased that we have been added in CoP-Seed Security.Thanks for all the members and let us commit to be agents for change in the best interest of our people and beneficiaries. 

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:30:19 +0300
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Dear all,

This is for your information.

Regards,

Joseph
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Fred Tako
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 06:11:08 -0700
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Dear,All.

Regards for the important information to be subscribed into this important discussion for seed security around the world.

Regards

Tako Fred Alousio
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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:42:28 +0300
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Dear all,

A few weeks ago we had interesting e-discussion on meta-analysis and related topics. You may want to have a quick look at the summary discussion and have some reflection on this before we send out new topics. Please use the link bellow to access the document.

ENGLISH
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-security-capacity-building/project-components/seeds/strengthening-the-ssa-network/en/

There was a similar discussion in the Sahel region. For Francophone speakers, please use the link bellow to access the discussion in France

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Thu, 22 May 2014 08:20:25 +0300
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Dear Colleague

We are pleased to announce the first e-discussion of the SSA Community of Practice (CoP) - Horn of Africa region:
"A meta analysis of past and current seed security assessments in the region".

More than 30 seed security assessments (SSA) have been conducted since 2006 in emergency and rehabilitation contexts, and yet no evaluation of quality or impact have been undertaken to generate lesson learning. There is a general agreement about the need to conduct a thorough analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses and describe concrete impacts of the assessments.

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Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE)
Wed, 21 May 2014 17:08:44 +0300
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Dear Colleague

You are receiving this email message due to your current or past involvement in activities or meetings related to Seed Security Assessments.

As you probably know, FAO has received funding from ECHO to build capacity in African eight countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Somalia and South-Sudan) for food and nutrition security programming in emergency and rehabilitation contexts on different aspects, including on seed security assessment (see more about the Project at http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-security-capacity-building/home/en/ ).

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