Seed System Survey - Methodology

Seed Security Assessment - A Practitioner’s Guide. Samuel Kugbei, Joseph Okidi, Emmanuel Gondo, Roger Shongo, Thomas Remington, Stephen Walsh, Thomas Osborn, Lucio Olivero, Phillipe Le Coent. FAO, March 2015.

The Practitioner’s Guide covers good practices, procedures, tools and questionnaires to assess the various ways in which smallholder farmers obtain seed, and levels of seed availability, seed access, seed quality and varietal suitability.A farmer is resilient if he / she can resist the impact of a major shock or stress so that pre-existent household sistuation is either maintained or quickly returned.