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Innovative Pilot Scheme Would Match Seeds to the Needs of Women Farmers (Ethiopian Seeds for Needs)

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</p><p>The “Innovative Pilot Scheme Would Match Seeds to the Needs of Women Farmers” (also called “Ethiopian Seeds for Needs”) is one of the winning projects of 2009 Global Development Marketplace: Adaptation for Climate Change. The Development Marketplace<ref>http://wbi.worldbank.org/developmentmarketplace/competition/2009-global-dm-adaptation-climate-change</ref> is a competitive grant program organized by the [Pagelink infos="World Bank|World Bank"], aiming to identify about 20 innovative projects dealing with climate change. The “Ethiopian Seeds for Needs” is one of the winning projects of the 2009 competition (it won an award of $200,000). It was put in place in [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Ethiopia|Gender Equality in Ethiopia"] by Bioversity International, the “world's leading organization dedicated to agricultural biodiversity research”<ref name="Bioversity International"><a href="http://www.bioversityinternational.org/about_us.html" alt="Bioversity International website: About us">Bioversity International website: About us</a></ref>. 
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<div id="toc"><h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_the-project"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">The Project</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_identifying-resistant-seeds"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Identifying Resistant Seeds</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#w_the-role-of-women-in-this-project"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">The Role of Women in this Project</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_follow-up"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Follow-up</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_see-also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_references"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_external-links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>
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</div><h2 id="w_the-project">The Project</h2>
<p>"Ethiopian Seeds for Needs" started on the observation that climate change endangers food security in many developing regions of the world, in particular in Africa. Therefore, the goal of the project was to give women farmers “an assured supply of climate-tolerant seeds for food production as climatic conditions change in the future”<ref name="DM blog"><a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/innovative-tools-to-match-seeds-to-the-needs-of-women-farmers-in-ethiopia" alt=""Innovative tools to match seeds to the needs of women farmers in Ethiopia" by Ehsan Dulloo on the Development marketplace blog">"Innovative tools to match seeds to the needs of women farmers in Ethiopia" by Ehsan Dulloo on the Development marketplace blog</a></ref>. 
</p><p>[embed width="300"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1UwZ_o6vgs[/embed] 
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<h3 id="w_identifying-resistant-seeds">Identifying Resistant Seeds</h3>
<p>The project was launched in April 2009 and it first consisted in identyfring resistant seeds.&nbsp;Bioversity International worked closely with Ethiopia’s Institute of Biodiversity Conservation (IBC), which safeguards Africa’s oldest gene bank, to identify seeds that would resist drought and elevated temperatures. Durum wheat and barley were selected among 30,000 samples, being considered as having the highest potential for local adaptation. 100 varieties of each crop were then selected to be tested out by farmers using a geographic information system (GIS)<ref name="GIS"><a href="http://www.gis.com/content/what-gis" alt="What is GIS?">What is GIS?</a></ref>. 
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<h3 id="w_the-role-of-women-in-this-project">The Role of Women in this Project</h3>
<p>The project was managed in Ethiopia by a women, Alganesh Tesema, the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation team leader. With her coworkers, they planted the 100 varieties of durum wheat and barley seeds at three project sites. Then, they organized meetings with the elder women of each site to follow the evolution of plantations. Thus, this project was a way of empowering these farmer women who lost their local power because of climate change and degradation of the environment. In Ethiopia, women are the primary seed custodians and thus the first concerned with climate change and its threat to food security. Moreover, this project involved all the generation, young female students being in charge of raising local awareness of the project. 
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<h2 id="w_follow-up">Follow-up</h2>
<p>Currently, the varieties collected from the field are being analyzed and measured. 
</p><p>The project was featured during the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the UNFCCC in Cancun, Mexico, that took place from November 29 to December 10, 2010. "Ethiopian Seeds for Needs" was highlighted during Agriculture Day<ref name="DM blog"><a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/innovative-tools-to-match-seeds-to-the-needs-of-women-farmers-in-ethiopia" alt="Ibid.">Ibid.</a></ref>. 
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<h2 id="w_see-also">See also</h2>
<p>[Pagelink infos="Women and the Environment"] 
</p><p>[Pagelink infos="Women and Agriculture"] 
</p><p>[Pagelink infos="Women and Water: The Forgotten Glass Ceiling"] 
</p><p>[Pagelink infos="Women and Water-Resource Management in Women and African Economic Development"] 
</p><p>[Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Gender Equality in Ethiopia"] 
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<h2 id="w_references">References</h2>
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<h2 id="w_external-links">External links</h2>
<p><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEVMARKETPLACE/Resources/205097-1234488846479/3959.pdf" alt="Project summary">Project summary</a> 
</p><p><a href="http://wbi.worldbank.org/developmentmarketplace/idea/innovative-pilot-scheme-would-match-seeds-needs-women-farmers" alt=""Innovative Pilot Scheme Would Match Seeds to the Needs of Women Farmers" presentation on the World Bank website">"Innovative Pilot Scheme Would Match Seeds to the Needs of Women Farmers" presentation on the World Bank website</a> 
</p><p><a href="http://www.bioversityinternational.org/" alt="Bioversity International website">Bioversity International website</a> 
</p><p><a href="http://www.wedo.org/wp-content/uploads/W+G-compilation_Cancun-Agreements_advance-version.pdf" alt="Gender Equality Language in the Cancun Agreements">Gender Equality Language in the Cancun Agreements</a>] 
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