Rethinking the logic of institutional environments aiming to
facilitate agroforestry smallholders in economic development,
this article compares smallholder input supply systems
for crop and tree seeds in sub-Saharan
Africa and
reflects on two basic challenges: (1) how to develop a large
number of relevant tree crops for different agroecologies,
(2) how to reach smallholders in rural areas. Policy options
for improving agroforestry input supply systems are discussed,
whereby our article concludes with suggestions how
sectoral approaches for crop seed systems can be modified
to agroforestry seed-seedling
systems. Biophysical differences
have practical implications for how the logic of the
‘African green revolution’ would be translated into a corresponding
revolution for agroforestry.