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Cleveland, David A. and Daniela Soleri, eds. 2002. Farmers, Scientists and Plant Breeding: Integrating Knowledge and Practice. Oxon, UK: CABI Publishing.

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ABSTRACT
There is growing interest in how farmers and formal plant breeders can work together to improve the results of plant breeding, yet little research that addresses the scientific basis for integrating their knowledge and practice. The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of farmers' and scientists' knowledge and practice, the similarities and differences between them, and how they can be successfully integrated in plant breeding. The chapters are written by social scientists and plant breeders encompassing theoretical and methodological overviews and case studies from around the world (The Andes, Cuba, Ethiopia, Mexico, Nepal, The Philippines, Switzerland, Syria, USA, and Zimbabwe).


CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Farmers, scientists and plant breeding: knowledge, practice, and the possibilities for collaboration. D A Cleveland (U California, USA) and D Soleri (CPFE and U 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. D Soleri (CPFE and U California, USA), D A Cleveland (U California, USA), S E Smith (U Arizona, USA), S Ceccarelli (ICARDA, Syria), S Grando (ICARDA, Syria), R B Rana (LI-BIRD, Nepal), D Rijal (LI-BIRD, Nepal), and H Ríos L (INCA, Cuba)

3. Economics perspectives on collaborative plant breeding for conservation of genetic diversity on farm. M Smale (IPGRI, Italy, and IFPRI, USA)

4. Social and agroecological variability of seed production and the potential collaborative breeding of potatoes in the Andean Countries. K Zimmerer (U Wisconsin, USA)

5. Farmers' views and management of sorghum diversity in Western Harerghe, Ethiopia: Implications for collaboration with formal breeding. S J McGuire (Wageningen U, The Netherlands)

6. How farmer-scientist cooperation is devalued and revalued: A Philippine Example. D Frossard, (Golden Colorado, USA)


Part II. Scientific plant breeders and collaboration

7. Selecting with farmers: The formative years of cereal breeding and public seed in Switzerland (1889-1936). J Schneider (Bern, Switzerland)

8. Theory, empiricism and intuition in professional plant breeding. D N Duvick (Iowa, USA)

9. Conceptual changes in Cuban plant breeding in response to a national socioeconomic crisis: the example of pumpkin. H Ríos L (INCA, Cuba), D Soleri (CPFE and U California, USA), D A Cleveland (U California, USA)

10. Participatory plant breeding in rice in Nepal. K D Joshi (LI-BIRD, Nepal), B Sthapit (IPGRI, Nepal), M Subedi (LI-BIRD, Nepal) and J R Witcombe (U Wales, UK)

11. Collaborative maize variety development for stress-prone environments in southern Africa. M Bänziger (CIMMYT, Zimbabwe) and J de Meyer (CIMMYT, Zimbabwe)

12. Plant breeding with farmers requires testing the assumptions of conventional plant breeding: lessons from the ICARDA barley program. S Ceccarelli (ICARDA, Syria) and S Grando (ICARDA, Syria)