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Dear Mary,



I would like to appreciate your contribution and sharing with us what the government of Kenya has been doing in trying to address drought problem and putting into consideration  ‘orphan crops” of which some are normally not the preferred crops for multiplication by “big seed companies” in the region. Just to a little bit understand your approach;





a)      Are these seed bulking groups formed by your program? How?



b)      What kind of support do you provide to the seed bulking?



c)       What  distribution mechanism have you put in place to ensure that the resource poor famers in ASAL are assisted?



d)      What have you put in place to ensure sustainability of such program?



Regards,



Joseph



From: mary karanja [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 8:57 AM

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

Subject: Re: Seed Security Assessment (SSA) - Community of Practice (CoP) Notification.



Dear Joseph,

I am pleased to be part of this activity on seed systems assessment. Have been contributing to food security, mitigation to climate change and adaptation through the promotion of traditional high value crops programme previously known as 'orphan crops' of the ministry of agriculture, livestock and fisheries, state department of agriculture in distribution of these crops seeds.

Through this program the drought tolerant crops, beans, green grams, cow peas, pigeon peas, dolichos, sorghum, millets, cassava and sweet potatoes are bulked by KARI on their farms and through identified seed bulking farmer groups. The seeds are distributed to resource poor farmers in ASALs since 2006.

This programme has had a great impact on food security and nutrition, social protection, income generation and also resilience after droughts and during floods as well as availing seed closer to farmers.

The seed security assessment exercise will inform on what has worked, what has not worked and the lessons learnt to advise Government on policy on seed systems development and promotion for food security and nutrition.

Regards,

Mary



On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE) <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

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/ ).



From the seed security point of view, one way of developing this capacity is to respond to the assessed need of improving knowledge exchange, broadening participation, providing accessible informational resources among the practitioners, and seeking technical support from among a pool of practitioners. The ECHO project is therefore supporting and promoting a new Community of Practice on Seed Security Assessment 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. A similar initiative, in French, is ongoing in the Sahel region for Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger.



This new Community of Practice is composed of food security programming officers, practitioners and policy makers at the district, national, regional and global level who are active in the humanitarian or seed sector support and development.



The Community of Practice on Seed Security Assessment is email based; you can participate by sending a message to the email address [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> that every member of the Community of Practice will receive. The discussions will be initiated, guided and moderated by me.



A first round of discussions will be initiated on today, and will run until July 2014. I will shortly be sending you the initial topic for discussion. You are warmly invited to participate by providing your views on the discussed topic, provide inputs on a specific argument, or raising a question or a need.



We highly value your inputs that will contribute towards a stronger and more skilled community of committed professionals. This is ultimately up to each of us!



Joseph Okidi

Seed System Security Specialist

Horn of Africa (Nairobi)

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