{"id":658,"date":"2022-07-24T07:44:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T07:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=658"},"modified":"2022-07-24T07:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T07:44:35","slug":"cabe-calls-for-review-of-seed-policies-to-combat-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/07\/24\/cabe-calls-for-review-of-seed-policies-to-combat-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"CABE calls for review of seed policies to combat climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220724_102621-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220724_102621-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220724_102621-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220724_102621-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220724_102621-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220724_102621-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220724_102621-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220724_102621-1980x1485.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Hannington Odame, Executive Director CABE <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Center for African Bio-Entreprenuership has called for the review of seed policies in order to  fight climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hannington Odame, Executive Director of CABE said that reforms are required in order to promote vegetatively propagated seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that seeds are at the center of climate change mitigation and adaptation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We need diverse and pluralist seed market systems that incorporate both formal and informal seeds systems,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Odame noted that currently 10 to 15 percent of all seeds are traded under formal seed systems and the rest under the formal seed systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221; We are advocating for intermediate seed systems that combine formal and informal systems,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for African Bio-Entreprenuership has called for the review of seed policies in order&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}