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Farmers, scientists, and plant breeding integrating knowledge and practice /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Cleveland, David Arthur, Soleri, Daniela
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxon ; New York : CABI, c2002.
Subjects:
Plant breeding.
Farmers.
Agricultural extension work.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Farmers, Scientists and Plant Breeding: Knowledge, Practice and the Possibilities for Collaboration
  • David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri
  • Part 1. Farmer Plant Breeders and Collaboration
  • 2 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
  • 3 Economics Perspectives on Collaborative Plant Breeding for Conservation of Genetic Diversity On Farm
  • Melinda Smale
  • 4 Social and Agroecological Variability of Seed Production and the Potential Collaborative Breeding of Potatoes in the Andee Countries
  • Karl Zimmerer
  • 5 Farmers' Views and Management of Sorghum Diversity in Western Harerghe, Ethiopia: Implications for Collaboration with Formal Breeding
  • Shawn J. McGuire
  • 6 How Farmer-Scientist Cooperation is Devalued and Revalued: a Philippine Example
  • David Frossard
  • Part 2. Scientific Plant Breeders and Collaboration
  • 7 Selecting with Farmers: the Formative Years of Cereal Breeding and Public Seed in Switzerland (1889-1936)
  • Jiirg Schneider
  • 8 Theory, Empiricism and Intuition in Professional Plant Breeding
  • Donald N. Duvick
  • 9 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
  • 10 Participatory Plant Breeding in Rice in Nepal
  • Krishna D. Joshi, Bhuwon Sthapit, Madhu Subedi and John
  • R. Witcombe
  • 11 Collaborative Maize Variety Development for Stress-prone Environments in Southern Africa
  • Marianne Binziger and Julien de Meyer
  • 12 Plant Breeding with Farmers Requires Testing the Assumptions of Conventional Plant Breeding: Lessons from the ICARDA Barley Program
  • Salvatore Ceccarelli and Stefania Grando.

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