The CGIAR RTB Toolbox, developed by the RTB Seed Systems project, offers a suite of tools for understanding seed systems and how to improve their management. One focus is root, tuber and banana seed systems, but most of the tools are useful for any seed system and many are useful beyond seed systems.
| Tool | Contact person | Applications and examples |
| Multi-stakeholder framework | Jorge Andrade-P. | Identify stakeholders, coordination breakdowns, bottlenecks
Rapid assessment of seed availability, access and quality |
| Impact network analysis | Karen Garrett
karengarrett [[@]] ufl.edu |
Scenario analysis to evaluate likely outcomes from each of a set of potential seed system interventions
General background: Garrett 2018, Case studies: Buddenhagen et al 2017, INA R package: available in GitHub |
| Small-N case study | Conny Almekinders | Exploratory case studies to understand seed system functioning |
| Means-end chains | Conny Almekinders | Understand farmers’ motivations for preferring particular seed / sources |
| Four-square method | Conny Almekinders/ Aman | Characterizing variety diversity & use |
| Seed tracing | Conny Almekinders | |
| Large-N surveys | TBD | Baseline & endline surveys to take advantage and capture status/change of seed systems characteristics |
| Choice games | Erik Delaquis | For eliciting farmers’ preferences, price levels, and risk thresholds in relation to plant / seed health issues |
| Seed health models
Integrated seed health approaches
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Karen Garrett
karengarrett [[@]] ufl.edu |
Framework for extrapolating seed degeneration and management effects across time and space
General background: Thomas-Sharma et al 2016, Thomas-Sharma et al 2017 Case studies: Ogero et al 2019, Buddenhagen et al 2018 seedHealth R package: available in GitHub, and as a Shiny interface |
| Gender tools | Netsayi Mudege | |
| Seed regulatory framework analysis | Margaret et al. | To understand how seed regulatory framework impact on VPC seed producers & users |
| Sustainable Early Generation Seed Business Analysis Tool (SEGSBAT) | Srini Rajendran | To define and monitor sustainable business models for EGS |
| Seed Tracker | Lava Kumar | Monitor volumes of registered seed up to end users |
| Glossary (as annex or part of ‘toolbox user guide’) | ||
| Pest risk management strategies (PRAs, PRiMPS) |