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ISSD’s Oromia South & West Unit facilitated a two-day workshop aimed at highlighting ways to improve cooperation and coordination between SPCs and seed unions.

ISSD facilitated a recent training which focused on supporting farmers who have mobilised and formed new cooperatives.

ISSD invests in developing local seed businesses that are technically equipped, market oriented, professionally organised and strategically linked. A recent study highlighted the lasting impact the programme’s activities has had on their viability, generating lessons for further support to seed producing cooperatives.

Download and read the latest developments and achievements by ISSD’s Tigray Unit, with this month’s focus on partnerships

Download and read the latest developments from ISSD’s Unit in Oromia East.

Ethiopian seed sector stakeholders, supported by ISSD Ethiopia, have been transforming the national seed sector. Their successes have not gone unnoticed and during a recent international workshop held at the ILRI campus in Addis Ababa, ISSD Ethiopia shared its lessons learned, hoping to inspire similar transformations in other countries.

The impact of the last El Nino on productivity and income confirmed the vulnerability of many seed producers to such shocks. ISSD’s Oromia East Unit reports on a potential solution.

ISSD and CASCAPE gender experts met to discuss complimentarity and a joint way forward in our collective efforts on gender issues in the Ethiopian food system.

ISSD Ethiopia has been tasked by the Federal Government to support the development of a new and effective EGS system.

During the 3rd annual Amhara regional cooperative exhibition, ISSD’s Amhara unit was awarded a certificate to acknowledge their efforts to strengthening regional seed producer cooperatives

The ISSD unit in Oromia South and West assessed seed dissemination mechanisms in six woredas. The results highlight important distinctions across crops and areas

ISSD’s team at Mekelle University hosted colleagues from the Agricultural Growth Program (AGP) to identify opportunities for improved collaboration in our efforts to strengthen the Tigray seed sector

The ISSD Tigray unit has delivered an orientation workshop on crowdsourcing (CS) and participatory varietal selection (PVS) for researchers from four Agricultural Research Centers (ARCs) and wereda office of agriculture representatives

ISSD teamed up with our sister programme, REALISE, to deliver a ToT to help our partners adopt and ultimately lead PVS and crowdsourcing activities.