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Farmers, scientists, and plant breeding (Record no. 248230)

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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 631.5/2
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Farmers, scientists, and plant breeding
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Wallingford, Oxon ;
-- New York :
Name of publisher CABI,
Year of publication c2002.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xii, 338 p. :
Other physical details ill., map.
505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Farmers, Scientists and Plant Breeding: Knowledge, Practice and the Possibilities for Collaboration -- David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri -- Part 1. 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 -- Daniela Soleri, David A. Cleveland, Steven E. Smith, -- Salvatore Ceccarelli, Stefania Grando, Ram B. Rana, -- Deepak Rijal and Humberto Rios Labrada -- 3 Economics Perspectives on Collaborative Plant Breeding for Conservation of Genetic Diversity On Farm -- Melinda Smale -- 4 Social and Agroecological Variability of Seed Production and the Potential Collaborative Breeding of Potatoes in the Andee Countries -- Karl Zimmerer -- 5 Farmers' Views and Management of Sorghum Diversity in Western Harerghe, Ethiopia: Implications for Collaboration with Formal Breeding -- Shawn J. McGuire -- 6 How Farmer-Scientist Cooperation is Devalued and Revalued: a Philippine Example -- David Frossard -- Part 2. Scientific Plant Breeders and Collaboration -- 7 Selecting with Farmers: the Formative Years of Cereal Breeding and Public Seed in Switzerland (1889-1936) -- Jiirg Schneider -- 8 Theory, Empiricism and Intuition in Professional Plant Breeding -- Donald N. Duvick -- 9 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 -- 10 Participatory Plant Breeding in Rice in Nepal -- Krishna D. Joshi, Bhuwon Sthapit, Madhu Subedi and John -- R. Witcombe -- 11 Collaborative Maize Variety Development for Stress-prone Environments in Southern Africa -- Marianne Binziger and Julien de Meyer -- 12 Plant Breeding with Farmers Requires Testing the Assumptions of Conventional Plant Breeding: Lessons from the ICARDA Barley Program -- Salvatore Ceccarelli and Stefania Grando.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Plant breeding.
Topical Term Farmers.
Topical Term Agricultural extension work.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Cleveland, David Arthur.
Personal name Soleri, Daniela.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10173510

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