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Dear Ahmed,



I totally agree with you that Famers and the target population need to be involved in identifying their real seed need. We in the humanitarian should as take responsibility when we provide seed late in the season - we are equally accountable to the affected population as we do to our donors.



Regards,



Joseph



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From: Integrated youth and Relief development association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 

Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:19 AM

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

Subject: Re: FW: Unsuitable crop varieties being provided to affected population in the form of seed aid in the horn of Africa region



Dear okadi



Thanks for your questions, and I extremely happy to have discussion with my colleague.

 Integrated youth and relief development association IYRDA runs operations in south-central Somalia.

Below I have written answers 



1- I do agree that unsuitable varieties are being provided in the form of seed, agencies involve contribution seeds do not  analyze needs of farmers and don’t give suitable varieties time in need. I don’t have more experience but I observed many meetings that  community farmers complain about poor seeds Obviously this can be improved to give adequate training to organizations involve contribution seeds to obtain solution of unsuitable varieties.



2- I don’t think that assessment depends on essential requirement of farmers; farmers are provided unsuitable seeds and unsuitable season.

In my opinion, local and international NGOs should organize meetings to discuss farmers’ requirement   with  suitable  variety seeds they need and time to prove it.



Humanitarian actors do not have certain information about the requirement of farmers, they bring seeds without consulting other organization, even other organizations do not have much information about requirement seeds.



Best regards

Khadra abdi ahmed



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