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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Cleveland, David Arthur.; Soleri, Daniela.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 338 p. :; ill., map.

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.