From B4FA Fellow, Abdallah el-Kurebe: Generally, seeds play important role in agriculture and food security. It is the primary pride of farmers, followed by fertilisers. This explains why government and other stakeholders should ensure timely seeds accessibility to farmers.
If smallholder farmers’ access to modern seed varieties is improved, we could be sure that food security concerns would be tackled.
The African Seed Access Index (TASAI), which objective is to promote the creation and maintenance of enabling environments for competitive seed systems serving smallholder farmers, has established the fact that Western Africa was an exception in the activities of the seed industry. “There is a clear gap” and seed companies have no presence in Gambian Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Niger and Sierra Leone. See more