tailieunhanh - BRINGING FARMERS BACK INTO BREEDING - Chapter 8

: setting the scene Origin of the initiative The participatory bean breeding initiative in Yorito, Honduras, grew out of a programme of collaboration between la Fundación para la Investigación Participativa con Agricultores de Honduras, or FIPAH (previously known as IPCA) | 8 Working with Farmer Research Committees in Participatory Bean Breeding in Honduras by Sally Humphries1 Omar Gallardo2 Jose Jimenez2 Fredy Sierra 2 and the Association of CIALS ASOCIAL Yorito Victoria and Sulaco3 1 Researcher Univerity of Guelph Canada shumphri@ 2 Technician FIPAH Honduras fipah@ 3 asocialhondurena@ Introduction setting the scene Origin of the initiative The participatory bean breeding initiative in Yorito Honduras grew out of a programme of collaboration between la Fundación para la Investigación Participativa con Agricultores de Honduras or FIPAH previously known as IPCA a Honduran non-governmental research and development organisation local agricultural research committees known by the Spanish acronym CIALs and plant breeders at the Pan-American Agricultural School Escuela Agrícola Panamericana EAP Zamorano. The CIAL programme in Honduras developed from a pilot project set up by the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical CIAT in 1993. Following training in 1996 by CIAT in participatory research methods FIPAH agronomists facilitated the establishment of CIALs in three locations in Honduras including one in the department of Yoro in the north eastern part of the country. Today there are 24 CIALs for adults and nine CIALs for youth located in the municipalities of Yorito Sulaco and Victoria in Yoro. Throughout this period the CIALs that are The CIAL project in Yorito Yoro and also in Jesus de Otoro Intibuca and Vallecillo Francisco Morazan is supported by USC-Canada and the Government of Canada through the Canadian International Development Agency CIDA . 53 supported by FIPAH have received financial assistance from Canada through the International Development Research Centre IDRC and since 2000 from USC-Canada through its Seeds of Survival SoS Programme. Social scientists at the University of Guelph Ontario have been close partners with FIPAH throughout the .