aisha_diallo
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What do you do when farmers do not want the improved seed?
The yields are better in trials. Uptake is about 15 percent. I think we have been answering a question nobody asked.
Agriculture
Farming, food, land, and the people who work it.
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aisha_diallo
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A seed bank run by the farmers who use it
Eleven villages, one storage building, and a committee that decides the rules rather than us. Stage is early. The building is up. The governance is the part we are still working out, and it is much harder than the construction was.
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