Highlights of Year One

Summary

Bulletin showcasing achievements in the first year of TLII, from September 2007 to August 2008. In this span, the socio-economics group generated baseline data and analyses; situation analyses were carried out for some crops in some of the regions; the crops groups assembled large numbers of existing germplasm and screened in nurseries for drought tolerance and other desirable traits, established farmer participatory variety selection trials and demonstrations, and generated new breeding lines; and the Seed Systems objective was instrumental in catalyzing the scaling up of Foundation and Certified seed, testing models, and raising awareness.