Farmers, scientists, and plant breeding : integrating knowledge and practice / edited by David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cleveland, David Arthur.

Soleri, Daniela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant breeding.

Farmers.

Agricultural extension work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxon ; New York : CABI, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of and relationship between the knowledge of farmers and of scientists, and how these can be best integrated in plant breeding.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-82975-3

9786610829750

0-85199-881-X

OCLC:

476061250