Shawn McGuire

TL;DR: This article aims to set up a framework for differentiating among PPB approaches, and shows how each PPB approach can lead to a different outcome, and so be able to make informed choices about which approach to pursue.

TL;DR: In this article, the degree to which the informal sector remains the core for seed acquisition, especially in Africa, has been investigated, showing that farmers access 90.2 % of their seed from informal systems with 50.9 % of that deriving from local markets.

TL;DR: The role of seed exchange networks in the preservation and adaptation of crop specific and genetic diversity is discussed in this article, where the authors advocate a diversity of approaches to foster the creation of robust and policy-relevant knowledge.

TL;DR: The importance of seed provisioning in food security and nutrition, agricultural development and rural livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity and germplasm conservation is well accepted by policy makers, practitioners and researchers as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between local conceptions of justice and the more globally referenced justice principles embedded in the design of ecosystem services (PESs) and find that PES schemes that are built on notions of justice that broadly align with those of prospective service providers will be better received than those that do not.