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Participatory Plant Breeding Working Group

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The working group on Plant Breeding Group (PPB-wg) was established in 1996 and has identified four key outputs for advancing the field of Participatory Plant Breeding.

• To assess and develop effective participatory methods in plant breeding, with a focus on farmer breeding, plant selection (segregating lines) and variety selection (fixed lines).
• To involve and target beneficiary groups in participatory breeding through development of social methods for working with users and better anticipating their needs.
• To identify and develop effective ways of organising participatory breeding in the research process.
• To ensure user access to the products of participatory breeding through appropriate seed system support.
• To ensure user access to the products of participatory breeding through identification of appropriate property rights and other forms of benefit sharing.

The PPB working group is open to all practitioners and developers of participatory research approaches for plant breeding. The group interacts through an email discussion list, meetings and seminars and is the sister group to the Participatory Natural Resource Management Working Group (PNRM-wg). To join the PBG contact the facilitator.