2017
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-017-0680-4
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Innovative and beneficial informal sweetpotato seed private enterprise in northern Uganda

Abstract: Research conducted in the informal sweetpotato seed (vines) supply system in the Gulu region, northern Uganda (2013Uganda ( -2015 revealed a diverse set of actors using private enterprise in a range of selling and marketing channels. The different channels offer an efficient and effective marketing system, providing different services and conveniences for farmers at different prices. The actors include local vine multipliers, traders, dry season root farmers, transporters and town sellers. The local multiplier… Show more

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“…Traders were important providers of seed to farmers in both countries, and buyers of seed in Vietnam (9% of national sales, 69% in Tay Ninh), mediating seed exchanges over distances up to several hundred kilometers, in large volumes requiring coordinated logistics. The inability of survey teams to reach all but a single trader listed by Cambodian farmers for follow-up interview is a reflection of the highly mobile and seasonal character of trading activities, similar difficulties to those documented in interviewing sweet potato vine traders in Uganda (Rachkara et al, 2017). Traders in Vietnam's Dak Lak and Tay Ninh provinces had different business models.…”
Section: Seed System Actors In Cambodia and Vietnammentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Traders were important providers of seed to farmers in both countries, and buyers of seed in Vietnam (9% of national sales, 69% in Tay Ninh), mediating seed exchanges over distances up to several hundred kilometers, in large volumes requiring coordinated logistics. The inability of survey teams to reach all but a single trader listed by Cambodian farmers for follow-up interview is a reflection of the highly mobile and seasonal character of trading activities, similar difficulties to those documented in interviewing sweet potato vine traders in Uganda (Rachkara et al, 2017). Traders in Vietnam's Dak Lak and Tay Ninh provinces had different business models.…”
Section: Seed System Actors In Cambodia and Vietnammentioning
confidence: 95%
“…A survey of vine multipliers and sellers was conducted in 2013-2014 in the Gulu Region of Northern Uganda, fully described by Rachkara et al (2017). A more complete cohort of multipliers and sellers was surveyed in 2014, the focus of our analysis.…”
Section: Survey Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although several transactions were recorded on a weekly basis, transactions were aggregated for this analysis so that seller-to-village links represent the existence of at least one transaction over the course of the season. Seller-village links are based entirely on the data from Rachkara et al (2017).…”
Section: Seed Network Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some strains of sweetpotato viruses, such as the severe EA strain of SPCSV, are geographically localized. Movement of planting material (sweetpotato vines) through trade can cover long distances (Rachkara et al 2017).…”
Section: Sweetpotatomentioning
confidence: 99%