Hunger and poverty in Africa has a solution

Farmer-driven approach to seed supply in Africa

Our Mission

Every farmer deserves good seed

The mission of Seed Systems Group is to extend the recent advances in seed systems development to farmers in countries of Africa that have so far been left behind.

Our Work

In 15 target countries

Approximately 38 million farmers live in 15 African countries where there is virtually no access to seed of improved crop varieties, including Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Madagascar, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

Seed Systems Group works to establish regular, dependable supply of high-yielding, resilient seed of a wide range of food crops among poor, smallholder farmers to help them improve their crop yields, nutritional status, and income. The Seed Systems Group is a non-profit organization registered in the United States and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

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COUNTRIES TARGETED

320M+

ESTIMATED POPULATION

38M+

EST. SMALL HOLDER FARMERS

670+

IMPROVED VARIETIES RELEASED

Where we work

15 target countries

With improved crop varieties now available to allow farmers in virtually any African country to intensify production systems, and a proven method for developing seed delivery systems, we seek to bring the power of high-yielding, locally adapted seed to the tens of millions of farmers living in the 15 countries below in the push for food security in All of Africa.

Farmer-driven approach to seed supply in Africa

Supported by

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USAID
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IITA
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Additionally for the RPSF, one regional project is working with Seed Systems Group (a Kenya-based NGO) to stimulate local production of climate-resilient seeds in Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and South Sudan. By introducing improved varieties developed by local and international research centres to local seed multipliers (including government agents, NGOs, and the private sector), the project is securing seed access of improved varieties for 90,000 smallholders. This project has also been used to enable the Intergovernmental Authority on Development to improve the policy for resilience-building of the seed sector in the region. Several other assessments are under way to continue to inform policy with lessons learned.

We have moved to a new location

Shelter Court, 140 Manyani W road , Nairobi