Collaborative Seed Programme under the Nigeria-Netherlands Seed Partnership

The Collaborative Seed Programme (CSP) brings together Nigerian and Dutch seed sector stakeholders with the aim to enhance the performance of the Nigerian seed sector. It takes a systemic approach for sustainably addressing key challenges in the seed sector. CSP contributes to the vision of the National Seed Road Map (NSRM) of Nigeria being the seed sector to become more competitive, resilient, profitable, innovative and adaptive, sustainable, inclusive, resistant and transparent. In order to achieve and contribute to this vision, the NSRM outlines 22 Strategic Innovation Pathways (SIPs) with ambitions and steps. The CSP contributes to the implementation of eight selected SIPs. These selected SIPs shape what are referred to as CSP Topics. The following topics have been selected: (i) decentralization of seed quality assurance; (ii) extension on seed and cultivation practices; (iii) seed company marketing and promotion; (iv) institutional markets; (v) sector governance and coordination; (iv) alignment of donor interventions; (vii) plant variety protection; and (viii) variety release.