Farmers and Plant Breeding: Current Approaches and Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138580428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 332 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?