Features Case studies: overview (slide show) Lessons and recommendations: overview (slide show) in_focus: SEEDS THAT GIVE Participatory Plant Breeding Ronnie Vernooy FACTS & FIGURES on Food and Biodiversity SEEDS THAT GIVE / Executive Summary

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Farmers as Researchers: The Rise of Participatory Plant Breeding 1999-09-10
Despite major advances in agricultural science, the rate of adoption of new plant varieties by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers in developing countries has been abysmally low. Under the Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation, researchers in universities, national and international research institutes, NGOs, grassroots organizations, and other groups are assessing and formulating new methods and organizational arrangements for participatory research in the areas of plant breeding and natural resource management. The principal aim is to create more relevant technology and equitable access to it.