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Seed Alliance Without BoundarySAWIBA holistic
approach for success

• FAO
• September 7th 2009
• Presentation
• Jean-Louis DUVAL FAO consultant
• Michael LARINDE FAO AGPS

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Seed Alliance Without BoundarySAWIB

• The basic concept
• Using seed as an entry point for increasing
  incomes for farmers and increased food production

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Presentation

• SAWIB Concept
• FAO initiative for Global partnership on seed
  security
• A scheme to explain this holistic approach
• Why SAWIB Responding to the Food Crisis?
• Why seed and plant varieties could be the support
  of this holistic approach
• A framework for the organization
• A first feedback
• Results of the survey regarding developed /
  developing countries relationship

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Concept

• Driving demand for seed by increasing marketing
  opportunities to the food industry
• Doing this through
• Linking with the international seed companies
• Linking with the food industry
• Linking with the International Agri-Food
  Network members.
• FAO serving as a facilitator of the initiative.

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Seed Alliance Without Boundary SAWIBAn FAO
initiative for Global Partnership on Seed Security

• In order to establish a sustainable seed supply
  and thereby facilitate food security of member
  countries, the Plant Production and Protection
  Division (AGP) started an initiative termed Seed
  Alliance Without Boundaries (SAWIB)
• The seed based initiative will cut across crop
  production and food industry domains with an
  holistic approach.

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Seed Alliance Without Boundary SAWIBAn FAO
initiative for Global Partnership on Seed Security

• The objective is to create a forum to bring
  together stakeholders from the private and public
  sector of developed and developing seed and food
  industries for dialog that will facilitate the
• a) transfer of technological and entrepreneurial
  skills for sustainable seed production and
  distribution
• b) linkage of seed sector with farmers or crop
  producers and
• c) linkage of crop producers to
  crop-value-addition industries.

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Seed Alliance Without Boundary SAWIBAn FAO
initiative for Global Partnership on Seed Security

• Overall, the initiative will facilitate the
  creation of seed industry that is market-driven
  and ensure sustainable use of plant genetic
  resources for food and agriculture.
• The first public-private-sector dialogue under
  this initiative took place in February 2009.

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Seed Alliance Without Boundary SAWIBAn FAO
initiative for Global Partnership on Seed Security

• The SAWIB will enhance the synergy of the
  public-private sectors and comparative advantages
  of developed and developing countries to
  facilitate access to innovation and products of
  biotechnology for the seed industries and effect
  linkages amongst crop producers, agricultural
  inputs producers/suppliers, industrial consumers
  of raw agricultural produce and food industries.
• The collaboration will be mutually beneficial as
  it will help in exploiting the agro-ecological
  potentials of developing countries for off-season
  seed production of advanced seed industries.
• Overall, the initiative will facilitate the
  creation of seed industry that is market-driven
  in developing countries.

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Seed Alliance Without BoundarySAWIB

• Scheme of the value chain
• An holistic approach

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Seed Alliance Without BoundarySAWIB

• WHY?
• Responding to the Food Crisis

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Why SAWIB Excerpts fromResponding to the Food
Crisis (1)

• Measures, activities and policies to boost
  agricultural production
• The provision of sufficient quantities of inputs,
  particularly high-quality seeds and fertilizers,
  is considered a major priority for coping with
  the present food crisis.
• However, this should be implemented through a
  comprehensive system approach, coupled with a
  medium-term strategy to improve the efficiency of
  the whole production and marketing chain for
  inputs, as part of the development of more
  efficient agricultural systems.

(1) Responding to the food crisis synthesis of
medium-term measures proposed in inter-agency
assessments. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF
THE UNITED NATIONS - WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME Rome,
2009 - This report has been supported with funds
from the European Union. http//www.fao.org/docrep
/011/i0769e/i0769e00.HTM
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Why SAWIB Excerpts fromResponding to the Food
Crisis (2)

• Programmes for inputs and related crop production
  services
• Private sector participation in seed
  multiplication and distribution is minimal, and
  the policy and legislation framework does not
  provide adequate incentives and conditions to
  foster development of the seed sector.
• Access to commercial fertilizer is also
  constrained by factors that include high costs,
  lack of commercial supply and distribution
  outlets, and inadequate participation from the
  private sector.
• For both seeds and fertilizer, insufficient
  credit facilities and a lack of integration
  between farm inputs and outputs are major
  limitations.

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Why SAWIB Excerpts fromResponding to the Food
Crisis (3)

• Cross-cutting issues
• Capacity building The need for an agro-food
  system approach should be more reflected in
  capacity building programmes, including not only
  production, but also processing and marketing.
• Institution building In addition to the
  necessary development of farmers organizations,
  there is also need to increase efforts to
  identify and implement innovative institutional
  mechanisms, such as public-private partnerships,
  particularly for the upstream and downstream
  sectors.
• More attention should be given to the major
  contribution that improved rural finance can make
  to the overall development of the agro-food
  sector.

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Why SAWIB Excerpts fromResponding to the Food
Crisis (4)

• The need for global approaches and policy
  coherence
• At the production level, even when the actions
  proposed focus on specific inputs such as seeds
  and fertilizers, it is necessary to adopt a
  global agricultural system approach that takes
  account of all physical and human factors, and
  provides the framework for increased public and
  private investments in agriculture.
• Actions at the production level have to be
  complemented by actions at the upstream and
  downstream levels within an overall agro-food
  perspective encompassing the whole value chain.
• A variety of initiatives in Africa aim to develop
  the seed sector, but coordination and
  collaboration among actors are very limited.

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Seed Alliance Without BoundarySAWIB

• The plant variety is the link of the value chain

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Seed Alliance Without Boundary SAWIBPlant
variety is the link of the value chain

• The mission of seed entrepreneur is the
  demonstration of the value of his varieties.
• The Variety is the backbone of the value
  recognition of supply chains
• It is a major contribution to extension services
• Seed-men and seed-women are the conductor of the
  value chain

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Why choosing value chain production as a new
model of development?

• Based on the market demand the food security
  challenge
• All actors of the value chain will support the
  use of the plant variety needed
• The identification of value chain will create
  added value to be shared among members
• Creation of rural employment along the value chain

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Seed Alliance Without BoundarySAWIB

• Framework for the organization and
  operationalization
• Networking

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Framework for the organization and
operationalization

• Linking the actors of the value chain
• Linking seed companies, agro dealers,
  processors...
• Private and public association
• Policy and regulation

1. Seeking for Expertise
2. Linkage Sponsorship
3. Market Development
Variety
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Market driven value added chain

• Markets studies will high light appropriate crops
  and value chains
• Another model comes from the experience of
  off-season

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Framework for the organization and
operationalization of SAWIB

• Services (output activity - objective)
• Identification management of different value
  added chains
• Linkage between parties
• Identification linkage of sponsors
• Facilitate the relationship between parties
• Organization of expert consultations, training
  sessions, study tours
• Publications success stories and guidelines,
  market studies, statistics
• Website

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Framework for the organization and
operationalization of SAWIB

• How
• Define organization
• Finance business model
• Networking
• National, regional global organizations and
  companies
• Public and private sectors
• Phases
• 1. Obtain the collaboration / agreement of
• International Agri-Food Network members
• Financing parties
• 2. Focus on few easy crops and countries
• 3. Further development with other crops and
  countries.

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Feedback from the Industry on SAWIB initiative

• From the Supermarket
• No answer
• From the food-industry
• Global brand names our processes are protected
  by company secret
• Commodities (rice oil) interesting approach
• From the seed industry
• Positive support
• From the fertilizer industry
• The SAWIB approach is in line with our approach
• From the crop protection industry
• How to contribute to SAWIB success 

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Results of the survey

• A survey has been realized in 2009 to measure the
  situation regarding the relationship between
  developed and developing countries

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Survey analysis

• Purpose
• A view from the seed industry in the relation
  between developed and developing countries
• 1 122 questionnaires sent
• 66 answers
• Not concerned
• Company secret
• I will come back
• 31 forms fulfilled
• from 19 countries

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Survey analysisExchange of germplasm or
varieties (1)(2)

• Contracting party from developed country

• Receiving party from developing country

• Open pollinated
• Yes 14 No 11
• Hybrid
• Yes 19 No 6

• Open pollinated
• Yes 16 No 5
• Hybrid
• Yes 19 No 2

The exchange seems to be easier for hybrid than
OP The No explanation for OP are Due to very
risk of illegal propagation, mainly in non UPOV
countries but not only, IP, PVP Laws
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Survey analysisTechnologies and technology tools
(3)

• Contracting party from developed country

• Receiving party from developing country

• Yes 17 No 1
• Ag biotech
• Biotechnology
• Biotechnology, seed technology under binding
  agreements
• Breeding and biotech capabilities
• Breeding methods
• Chemistry, crop protection
• Germplasm
• Lab techniques machinery
• Molecular
• Seeds

• Yes 15 No 7
• Ag biotech
• Biotechnology
• Breeding and biotech capabilities
• Breeding tissue culture, marker technology
• Breeding tools
• Chemistry
• Herbicide resistance biotech, molecular, primers
• Molecular
• Seeds
• Various

Large exchange, same view between contracting and
receiving parties
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Survey analysisSkill and know how (4)

• Contracting party from developed country

• Receiving party from developing country

• Yes 19 No 8
• Breeding technology 2
• Crop and seed production know how
• field management
• field screening
• plant breeding
• production processes
• Quality in production
• Seed production 3
• technology, expertise, IP
• training
• various

• Yes 12 No 11
• breeding skills
• breeding tissue culture, marker technology
• diseases resistance breeding, healthy oil
  breeding
• Seed production
• technology, expertise, IP
• various

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Survey analysisProduction Hybrid / OP (5) (6)

• Contracting party from developed country

• Receiving party from developing country

• Hybrid Yes 4 No 2
• Corn, sunflower, vegetables, flowers
• Main limiting factors IP protection, know how,
  climatic adaptation, too many papers.
• OP Yes 17 No 9
• Canola, cotton, cereals, beans, forage,
  ornamentals, soybean, vegetables, flowers
• Main limiting factors IP protection and climatic
  adaptation

• Hybrid Yes 8 No 15
• Corn, sunflower, vegetables, flowers
• Main limiting factors parent lines protection,
  to be competitive
• OP Yes 6 No 16
• Clover, rapeseed, vegetables, alfalfa, flowers
• Main limiting factors IP protection, no demand,
  not feasible

Easier to exchange germplasm in hybrid than
producing on site due to IP protection and
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Survey analysisWinter nursery (7)

• Contracting party from developed country

• Receiving party from developing country

• Yes 8 No 20
• Corn, cotton, sunflower, oilseed, triticale,
  vegetables
• Limiting factors costs, movement of germplasm

• Yes 6 No 17
• Corn, cotton, vegetables, sunflower, rapeseed,
  flowers
• Limiting factors costs, movement of germplasm

Same evaluation from developed and developing
countries
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Survey analysisBusiness linkage and marketing (8)

• Contracting party from developed country

• Receiving party from developing country

• Yes 22 No 3
• Limiting factors
• ability to commit a contract,
• cost of seed,
• no sufficient variety protection,
• mentality of potential partners

• Yes 20 No 2
• Limiting factors
• expensive seeds from developed countries

Highest rank for Yes both side but still some
limiting factors to take into account!
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Survey analysis

• Activity of the companies

• Size of the activity

• Breeding Yes 23 No 7
• Production Yes 27 No 1
• Marketing Yes 29 No 0

• 0 to 10 M 6
• 10 to 50 M 11
• 50 to 200 M 4
• More 8

Major companies have replied to the survey
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Thank you for your attention
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Preliminary remarks from seed companies

• Need to be practical and make impact on the
  ground within the projects
• Each partys mission is identified and bring
  their core competencies focused on each project
• Planning and resources dedicated to success
• good clear plan in writing
• goals to achieve
• stay on track
• sort out misunderstanding
• Coordination to have all parties on board on the
  same targets and in due time
• Publicity / aids / communication
• Precise timing for development versus business
  relationship
• Self sustainability as the ultimate step of the
  support