We argue that in facilitating such a process, it is important to understand the diversity of perspectives on the meanings and functions of seed systems, the agricultural sustainability challenges those systems give rise to and of potential solutions, and to work with and from those divergent perspectives to identify areas of actionable consensus or potential affinities between actors who otherwise. [...] Our plans involved different combinations of restrictions, or the absence of for the remit of the codesign workshop were made in light of the restrictions, on the scope for farmers to save seeds from their own scoping phase and then subsequently modified in light of the pilot harvest and replant them without payment or permission, and Q method exercise. [...] The workshop prompted us to reflect on a One example that the research team explored in the wake of the number of issues that had implications for the next phase of the preparatory workshop, and which addresses the shared perceived project. [...] Clearly there is a tension here between influencing sustainability problems associated with the current industrial group discussions and ceding autonomy entirely to participants, structure and governance of seed systems, and possible solutions, although the notion of codesign suggests some balance between was intended to support the design and operation of the the input of researchers and particip. [...] is of the absence of, and sheer difficulty in obtaining, a shared understanding of which meanings or functions of seed systems The second option, of trying to reframe the ways in which are most important, of the agricultural sustainability problems problems are understood among different actors and associated with existing seed systems, and of desired agricultural constituencies, holds significant.