Farmers and Plant Breeding: Current Approaches and Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781032088877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 356 str.

Ola Tveitereid Westengen; Tone Winge

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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.