Farmers and Plant Breeding (eBook, ePUB)

Current Approaches and Perspectives
Redaktion: Westengen, Ola Tveitereid; Winge, Tone

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the history of, and current approaches to, farmer-breeder collaboration in plant breeding, situating this work in the context of sustainable food systems, as well as national and international policy and law regimes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429017001
• Artikelnr.: 57831137

Autorenporträt

Ola Tveitereid Westengen is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway. Tone Winge is a Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Part I Introduction 1. New Perspectives on Farmer-Breeder
Collaboration in Plant Breeding 2. Origins and Evolution of Participatory
Approaches in Plant Breeding Part II Current Approaches to Farmer-Breeder
Collaboration 3. Long-term Collaboration between Farmers' Organizations and
Plant Breeding Programmes: Sorghum and Pearl Millet in West Africa 4. Rice
PPB in India and Nepal: Client-oriented Plant Breeding Using Few, Carefully
Chosen Crosses 5. Twenty Years of Participatory Varietal Selection at
AfricaRice: Lessons from Farmer Involvement in Variety Development 6.
Native Maize in Mexico: Participatory Breeding and Connections to Culinary
Markets 7. Pushing Back Against Bureaucracy: Farmers' Role in
Decentralizing Plant Breeding and Seed Production in Honduras 8.
Participatory Varietal Selection in the Andes: Farmer Involvement in
Selecting Potatoes with Traits from Wild Relatives 9. A 20-Year Journey:
Participatory Breeding of Maize in South-West China 10. Evolutionary
Participatory Quinoa Breeding for Organic Agroecosystems in the US Pacific
Northwest Part III Overarching Concerns and New Perspectives 11.
Participatory Plant Breeding: Human Development and Social Reform 12.
Building Collaborative Advantages Through Long-Term Farmer-Breeder
Collaboration: Practical Experiences from West Africa 13. Sourcing and
Deploying New Crop Varieties in Mountain Production Systems 14. Expanding
Community Support in Genetic Diversity Management: The FFS Approach
15. From Participatory to Evolutionary Plant Breeding Part IV Collaborative
Approaches: International and National Legal Contexts 16. Participatory
Plant Breeding as a Tool for Implementing Farmers' Rights and Sustainable
Use under the Plant Treaty 17. Funding Participatory Plant Breeding:
Outlook and Future Challenges 18. Seed Laws: Bottlenecks and Opportunities
for Participatory Plant Breeding 19. Participatory Plant Breeding and Sui
Generis Plant Variety Protection 20. The Straitjacket of Plant Breeding:
Can It Be Eased?