Farmers, Scientists, and Plant Breeding: Integrating Knowledge and Practice

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David Arthur Cleveland, Daniela Soleri
CABI, 1 thg 1, 2002 - 350 trang
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.

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Farmers Scientists and Plant Breeding
1
Development and Examples from Ongoing Research
19
Economics Perspectives on Collaborative Plant Breeding
61
Social and Agroecological Variability of Seed Production
83
Farmers Views and Management of Sorghum Diversity
107
How FarmerScientist Cooperation is Devalued
137
Scientific Plant Breeders and Collaboration
161
Theory Empiricism and Intuition in Professional Plant
189
Conceptual Changes in Cuban Plant Breeding in Response
213
Participatory Plant Breeding in Rice in Nepal
239
Collaborative Maize Variety Development for Stressprone
269
Plant Breeding with Farmers Requires Testing
297
Index
333
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