Title: Farmers, scientists and plant breeding: knowledge, practice and the possibilities for collaboration.
Abstract: Control over management of the world's resources is increasingly contested because of economic, political and biophysical globalization, and increasing demands of a growing population of more than 6 billion. This has led to new interest in indigenous or traditional knowledge in many areas, including agriculture and plant breeding. Farmers were the first plant breeders, beginning with domestication of plants over 12,000 years ago. Modern, scientific plant breeding developed in the last two centuries, and has become increasingly separated from farmers, especially in non-industrial regions. Plant breeding systems consist not only of crop genotypes and growing environments, but also of the social structures in which plant breeding is carried out, and the knowledge of farmers and scientists. Because of the challenge to make plant breeding and agriculture more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable, there is increasing interest in reuniting farmer and scientific plant breeding.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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