tailieunhanh - BRINGING FARMERS BACK INTO BREEDING - Chapter 1

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB). It reviews the approach from both a technical and a social perspective and identifies the challenges for incorporating PPB in national plant breeding regimes, which we argue is necessary for its scaling-up and future sustainability | AgroSpecial 5 Bringing Farmers Back Into Breeding Experiences with Participatory Plant Breeding and Challenges for Institutionalisation Conny Almekinders Jaap Hardon Eds with Anja Christinck Sally Humphries Didit Pelegrina Bhuwon Sthapit Ronnie Vernooy Bert Visser Eva Weltzien and others. H UTVIKLINGSFONDET THE DEVELOPMENT FUND EL FONDO DE DESARROLLO IDRC CRDI International Development Centre de recherches pour le Research Centre développement international Canada This publication was prepared with support from the Development Fund Norway and the Canadian International Development Research Centre Readers are encouraged to make use of reproduce disseminate and translate materials from this publication for their own use. Due acknowledgement with full reference to the articles and authors is requested. Reference Conny Almekinders Jaap Hardon eds. 2006. Bringing Farmers Back into Breeding. Experiences with Participatory Plant Breeding and Challenges for Institutionalisation. Agromisa Special 5 Agromisa Wageningen. pp 135 Cover picture Sonja Siart Agromisa Foundation Wageningen 2006 ISBN 90-8573-066-X PREFACE The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of Participatory Plant Breeding PPB . It reviews the approach from both a technical and a social perspective and identifies the challenges for incorporating PPB in national plant breeding regimes which we argue is necessary for its scaling-up and future sustainability. It draws on the concrete experiences of a number of PPB projects in Latin America Africa and South East Asia. These are selected to provide a range of different levels of cooperation between researchers NGOs and farmers. PPB can complement the centralised institutional plant breeding regimes that are common to industrial countries and practiced by the international institutes of the CGIAR and government institutions in developing countries. When used in combination with increased external inputs