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Seed exchange

Intervention in which farmers and communities circulate seed and planting material among themselves through informal or organised channels, spreading varieties outside the formal seed sector.

Definition source: AGROVOC: germplasm exchange (c_deb98e72)

Synonyms

seed swap

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

none

Relations

produces Community seed bank
part-of Genetic resource management

Counts as adaptation

Intervention addresses a climate hazard, OR produces a qualifying outcome (adaptation-specific or hazard-conditioned), OR produces an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when done purely for productivity, market, or development with no hazard link and no hazard-referenced result.

Example of use

Climate context: including climate-adapted ones.

Provenance

PRMS pilot

Identifier

INT_268 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_268
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_268)