Overview

The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of and relationship between the knowledge of farmers and of scientists, and how these can be best integrated in plant breeding. In the past, farmers' knowledge of local biodiversity has often been underutilized, but there is an increased recognition of the importance of farmer participation or collaboration.

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Author:   David A. Cleveland (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) ,  Daniela Soleri (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Publisher:   CABI Publishing
Imprint:   CABI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9780851995854

ISBN 10:   0851995853
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   17 June 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction: Farmers, scientists and plant breeding: knowledge, practice, and the possibilities for collaboration, D A Cleveland and D Soleri, University of 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, 3: Economics perspectives on collaborative plant breeding for conservation of genetic diversity on farm, 4: Social and agroecological variability of seed production and the potential collaborative breeding of potatoes in the Andean Countries, 5: Farmers' views and management of sorghum diversity in Western Harerghe, Ethiopia: Implications for collaboration with formal breeding, 6: How farmer-scientist cooperation is devalued and revalued: A Philippine Example, Part II: Scientific plant breeders and collaboration 7: Selecting with farmers: The formative years of cereal breeding and public seed in Switzerland (1889-1936), 8: Theory, empiricism and intuition in professional plant breeding, 9: Conceptual changes in Cuban plant breeding in response to a national socioeconomic crisis: the example of pumpkins, 10: Participatory plant breeding in rice in Nepal, 11: Collaborative maize variety development for stre,ss-prone environments in southern Africa, 12: Plant breeding with farmers requires testing the assumptions of conventional plant breeding: lessons from the ICARDA barley program,

Reviews

I strongly recommend this stimulating and informative book to students, plant breeders, social scientists and administrators of research and development in the international agricultural sector. -- Experimental Agriculture The authors describe examples of farmer involvement in institutional plant breeding programs, and compare the knowledge of selection and genetic theory that farms and scientists bring to these collaborative efforts...Contrast in opinions among authors makes this book interesting to a wide spectrum of readers who are concerned with the genetics, politics, and social aspects of the convergence of modern and traditional science in agriculture. -- Biological Agriculture and Horticulture This book will be of interest primarily to plant breeders with an interest in exploring PPB as a dimension of their crop improvement programs. Likewise, policymakers in developing countries and developed assistance agencies should benefit... -- BioScience

I strongly recommend this stimulating and informative book to students, plant breeders, social scientists and administrators of research and development in the international agricultural sector.

"""I strongly recommend this stimulating and informative book to students, plant breeders, social scientists and administrators of research and development in the international agricultural sector.""-- ""Experimental Agriculture"" ""The authors describe examples of farmer involvement in institutional plant breeding programs, and compare the knowledge of selection and genetic theory that farms and scientists bring to these collaborative efforts...Contrast in opinions among authors makes this book interesting to a wide spectrum of readers who are concerned with the genetics, politics, and social aspects of the convergence of modern and traditional science in agriculture.""-- ""Biological Agriculture and Horticulture"" ""This book will be of interest primarily to plant breeders with an interest in exploring PPB as a dimension of their crop improvement programs. Likewise, policymakers in developing countries and developed assistance agencies should benefit...""-- ""BioScience"""

Author Information

David A. Cleveland is a human ecologist who has done research and development project work on sustainable agrifood systems with farmers and gardeners around the world. His research and teaching have focused on sustainable, small-scale agrifood systems, including plant breeding and conservation of crop genetic diversity, and local and scientific knowledge and collaboration between farmers and scientists. His current research and teaching focus is on food system localization and diet change to improve health, mitigate anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation, and promote food and climate justice, including at the University of California, in California, and globally. Daniela Soleri is an ethnoecologist whose research is on local and scientific knowledge systems in small scale agriculture and gardens, and collaboration between formal scientists and gardeners and farmers. This includes research with communities around the world in quantifying farmer practices, documenting risk assessment and cultural identity related to seeds, and investigating new semi-formal seed systems. She teaches a class at UCSB on ""citizen"" and community science, and is currently working with seed and garden activists and scientists to investigate crop diversity and adaptation in California food gardens.

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