A study- The Access to Seeds Index 2019 – Global Seed Companies, published by the Amsterdam-based Access to Seeds Foundation, evaluated the activities of 13 global seed companies, to shine a light on where the industry can do more, to raise smallholder farmer productivity, improve nutrition and mitigate the effects of climate change, through the development and dissemination of quality seed.
Quality seeds reached only 47 million out of the world’s 500 million smallholder farmers in 2017. In addition, the companies invested in a small number of countries, mostly in South and Southeast Asia.
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