Farmers, scientists, and plant breeding : integrating knowledge and practice

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Part 1. Farmer Plant Breeders and Collaboration

Understanding Farmers' Knowledge as the Basis for Collaboration with Plant Breeders : Methodological Development and Examples from Ongoing Research in Mexico, Syria, Cuba and Nepal / Daniela Soleri [and others]

Economics Perspectives on Collaborative Plant Breeding for Conservation of Genetic Diversity On Farm / Melinda Smale

Social and Agroecological Variability of Seed Production and the Potential Collaborative Breeding of Potatoes in the Andee Countries / Karl Zimmerer

Farmers' Views and Management of Sorghum Diversity in Western Harerghe, Ethiopia : Implications for Collaboration with Formal Breeding / Shawn J. McGuire

How Farmer-Scientist Cooperation is Devalued and Revalued : a Philippine Example / David Frossard

Part 2. Scientific Plant Breeders and Collaboration

Selecting with Farmers : the Formative Years of Cereal Breeding and Public Seed in Switzerland (1889-1936) / Jürg Schneider

Theory, Empiricism and Intuition in Professional Plant Breeding / Donald N. Duvick

Conceptual Changes in Cuban Plant Breeding in Response to a National Socio-economic Crisis : the Example of Pumpkins / Humberto Rios Labrada, Daniela Soleri and David A. Cleveland

Participatory Plant Breeding in Rice in Nepal / Krishna D. Joshi [and others]

Collaborative Maize Variety Development for Stress-prone Environments in Southern Africa / Marianne Binziger and Julien de Meyer

Plant Breeding with Farmers Requires Testing the Assumptions of Conventional Plant Breeding : Lessons from the ICARDA Barley Program / Salvatore Ceccarelli and Stefania Grando