Farmers, scientists and plant breeding/
David Arthur Cleveland and Daniela Soleri
- New York: CABI, 2002.
- 338 p.
1: Introduction: Farmers, scientists and plant breeding: knowledge, practice, and the possibilities for collaboration, D A Cleveland and D Soleri, University of California, USA Part I: 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, 3: Economics perspectives on collaborative plant breeding for conservation of genetic diversity on farm, 4: Social and agroecological variability of seed production and the potential collaborative breeding of potatoes in the Andean Countries, 5: Farmers' views and management of sorghum diversity in Western Harerghe, Ethiopia: Implications for collaboration with formal breeding, 6: How farmer-scientist cooperation is devalued and revalued: A Philippine Example, Part II: Scientific plant breeders and collaboration 7: Selecting with farmers: The formative years of cereal breeding and public seed in Switzerland (1889-1936), 8: Theory, empiricism and intuition in professional plant breeding, 9: Conceptual changes in Cuban plant breeding in response to a national socioeconomic crisis: the example of pumpkins, 10: Participatory plant breeding in rice in Nepal, 11: Collaborative maize variety development for stre,ss-prone environments in southern Africa, 12: Plant breeding with farmers requires testing the assumptions of conventional plant breeding: lessons from the ICARDA barley program
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