Sperling, L. Person

selected publications

• article

  • Viewpoint: COVID-19 and seed security response now and beyond.  Food Policy.  97:102000. 2020
  • Informal Seed Traders: The Backbone of Seed Business and African Smallholder Seed Supply.  Sustainability.  12. 2020
  • Understanding root, tuber, and banana seed systems and coordination breakdown: a multi-stakeholder framework.  Journal of Crop Improvement.  32:599-621. 2018
  • The BioMart community portal: an innovative alternative to large, centralized data repositories.  Nucleic Acids Research.  43:589-W598. 2015
  • Participatory Plant Breeding with Traders and Farmers for White Pea Bean in Ethiopia..  The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension.  20:497-512. 2014
  • The role of evidence in humanitarian assessment: the Seed System Security Assessment and the Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis.  Disasters.  37. 2013
  • Making seed systems more resilient to stress.  Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions.  23:644-653. 2013
  • Multi-stakeholder framework for intervention in VPC seed systems: potato and sweetpotato applications 2013
  • Fatal gaps in seed security strategy.  Food Security.  4:569-579. 2012
  • BioMart Central Portal: an open database network for the biological community.  DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION.  2011. 2011
  • Development and delivery of bean varieties in Africa: the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) model 2011
  • Market access, intensification and productivity of common bean in Ethiopia: A microeconomic analysis.  African Journal of Agricultural Research.  6:476-487. 2011
  • Relative importance of common bean attributes and variety demand in the drought areas of Kenya 2011
  • Uganda: dreams of starting a company 2011
  • Persistent myths about emergency seed aid.  Food Policy.  35:195-201. 2010
  • UNDERSTANDING AND STRENGTHENING INFORMAL SEED MARKETS.  Experimental Agriculture.  46:119-136. 2010
  • Bean Seed Delivery for Small Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Power of Partnerships.  Society & Natural Resources.  23:285-302. 2010
  • Public-private sector partnerships : The power of small seed packs for reaching 100,000s of kenyan bean farmers 2009
  • Seed system security assessment: new methods for understanding farming systems resilience 2009
  • Leveraging farmers' strategies for coping with stress: seed aid in Ethiopia.  Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions.  18:679-688. 2008
  • Moving Towards More Effective Seed Aid.  Journal of Development Studies.  44:586-612. 2008
  • Leveraging farmers´ strategies for coping with stress: seed aid in Ethiopia 2008
  • A new approach for facilitating farmers´ access to bean seed 2007
  • Seed aid for seed security: advice for practitioners 2006
  • Addressing seed security in disaster response - linking relief with development 2004
  • Drought, civil strife, and seed vouchers & fairs: the role of the trader in the local seed system 2004
  • Seed systems and seed relief: an annotated bibliography 2004
  • The use of informal seed producer groups for diffusing root-rot resistant varieties during periods of acute stress 2004
  • Workshop on Effective and Sustainable Seed Relief Activities (2003, Rome). Towards effective and sustainable seed relief activities : Report 2004
  • Technical and institutional issues in participatory plant breeding-done from a perspective of farmer plant breeding : a global analysis of issues and of current experience 2003
  • Technical and institutional issues in participatory plant breeding-from the perspective of formal plant breeding: a global analysis of issues, results, and current experience 2003
  • Understanding seed systems and strengthening seed security 2003
  • The role of research institutions in seed-related disaster relief: Seeds of Hope experiences in Rwanda..  Disasters.  26:288-301. 2002
  • A framework for analyzing participatory plant breeding approaches and results.  Euphytica.  122:439-450. 2001
  • Base-broadening for client-oriented impact: insights drawn from participatory plant breeding field experience 2001
  • Emergency seed aid In Kenya: a case study of lessons learned 2000
  • INSTITUTIONALIZING PARTICIPATORY, CLIENT-DRIVEN RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN AGRICULTURE.  Development and Change.  26:753-770. 1995
  • Rethinking the farmer's role in plant breeding: local bean experts and on-station selection in Rwanda.  Experimental Agriculture.  29:509-519. 1993
  • The dynamics of adoption: Distribution and mortality of bean varieties among small farmers in Rwanda.  Agricultural Systems.  41:441-453. 1993
  • Institutionalizing participatory, client-driven research and technology development in agriculture 1992
  • Breeding to meet farmers` needs 1989

• document

  • RTB Seed Systems. Conceptual frameworks for guiding practical interventions 2013
  • Seed system security assessment: Zimbabwe 2009
  • How research is improving response in really high stress systems: emergency seed aid in Africa 2008
  • Moving from emergency seed aid to seed security: linking relief with development: proceedings, Oslo May 14th 2008 2008
  • When disaster strikes: a guide to assessing seed systems security 2008
  • Developing seed systems with and for the marginalized: case of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in East, Central and Southern Africa 2007
  • The quality of science in participatory plant breeding : Macarese, Rome, Italy, IPGRI headquarters, Septemer 30-October 4, 2002 2003
  • Assessing the impact of participatory research and gender analysis 2001
  • Emergency seed aid in Kenya: a case study of lessons learned 2001
  • Fitomejoramiento participativo y derechos de propiedad intelectual 2000
  • Methodological challenges for institutionalizing participatory research and development 1997
  • Analysis of bean seed channels in the Great Lakes region : South Kivu, Zaire, Southern Rwanda, and select bean-growing zones of Burundi 1994
  • Designing seed systems for smallholder farmers: principles derived from bean research in the Great Lakes region of Africa 1994
  • Discussion et recommandations: aspects agronomiques et socio-économiques de la sélection et des mélanges variétaux 1993
  • Designing bean seed systems for smallholders 1992
  • Diagnostique spécifique - haricot commun - à Walungu 1992