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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wallingford, Oxon ; New York :
CABI,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. Farmer Plant Breeders and Collaboration
- 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 [and others]
- 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
- Part 2. Scientific Plant Breeders and Collaboration
- 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 [and others]
- 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.