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Book SynopsisThe 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. In the past, farmers' knowledge of local biodiversity has often been underutilized, but currently there is an increased recognition of the importance of farmer participation or collaboration.
Table of Contents1: 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,
