Farmers, scientists and plant breeding : integrating knowledge and practice /
This book reviews "participatory" or "collaborative" plant breeding and presents case studies. It also addresses three key issues: (1) what is the nature of plant breeding knowledge, in theory and practice?; (2) in what ways are farmers' and plant breeders' knowledge si...
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| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK :
CABI,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Farmers, Scientists and Plant Breeding : Knowledge, Practice and the Possibilities for Collaboration / David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri
- Understanding Farmers' Knowledge as the Basis for Collaboration with Plant Breeders : Methodological Development and Examples from Ongoing Research in Mexico, Syria, Cuba and Nepal / Daniela Soleri, David A. Cleveland, Steven E. Smith, Salvatore Ceccarelli, Stefania Grando, Ram B. Rana, Deepak Rijal and Humberto Rios Labrada
- Economics Perspectives on Collaborative Plant Breeding for Conservation of Genetic Diversity On Farm / Melinda Smale
- Social and Agroecological Variability of Seed Production and the Potential Collaborative Breeding of Potatoes in the Andee Countries / Karl Zimmerer
- Farmers' Views and Management of Sorghum Diversity in Western Harerghe, Ethiopia : Implications for Collaboration with Formal Breeding / Shawn J. McGuire
- How Farmer-Scientist Cooperation is Devalued and Revalued : a Philippine Example / David Frossard
- Selecting with Farmers : the Formative Years of Cereal Breeding and Public Seed in Switzerland (1889-1936) / Jürg Schneider
- Theory, Empiricism and Intuition in Professional Plant Breeding / Donald N. Duvick
- Conceptual Changes in Cuban Plant Breeding in Response to a National Socio-economic Crisis : the Example of Pumpkins / Humberto Rios Labrada, Daniela Soleri and David A. Cleveland
- Participatory Plant Breeding in Rice in Nepal / Krishna D. Joshi, Bhuwon Sthapit, Madhu Subedi and John R. Witcombe
- Collaborative Maize Variety Development for Stress-prone Environments in Southern Africa / Marianne Binziger and Julien de Meyer
- Plant Breeding with Farmers Requires Testing the Assumptions of Conventional Plant Breeding : Lessons from the ICARDA Barley Program / Salvatore Ceccarelli and Stefania Grando.