Sperling, L. (Ed). Targeted Seed Aid and Seed System Interventions: Strengthening Small Farmer Seed Systems in East and Central Africa. Proceedings of a workshop held in Kampala, Uganda, 21–24 June 2000. 451 p.

Fukuda, W and N. Saad. 2000. Participatory Research in Cassava Breeding with Farmers in Northeast Brazil. Working Document No. 14. PRGA Program. Cali, Colombia.Participatory research with farmers is gaining acceptance in institutions and programs that seek to develop technologies for sustainable development in rural areas. Among these institutions are the breeding programs in several Latin American and Caribbean countries. The Participatory Research in Cassava Breeding (IPMY) procedure─initially developed by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in collaboration with the Colombian Agricultural and Livestock Research Corporation (CORPOICA) in the Caribbean coastal region of Colombia─has been adopted and/or adapted and applied in several countries. This document presents a participatory cassava breeding experience with farmers from northeastern Brazil, implemented by the Brazilian Agricultural and Livestock Research Agency-National Center for Research on Cassava and Fruits (EMBRAPA-CNPMF) in collaboration with the regional rural extension services, NGOs, farmers’ associations and individual farmers. The experience began with a pilot project in nine communities of a municipality in the Northeast; today, seven years later, the initiative has supported a total of 305 participatory trials in 70 communities of 4 states in the region. Eight varieties have been released, and another dozen clones with a high probability of acceptance have been identified. Many farmers are already growing these clones and testing others and there has been a constant demand from farmers and institutions in the region to continue this work. The expansion phases of the Project, what was learned during the process and the results obtained thus far are described. The strengths and weaknesses of the work are also analyzed, and some of the challenges and possible directions in the immediate future are highlighted.

PRGA Program, 2009. Participatory plant breeding. PRGA Program Thematic Brief No. 2. CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis, Cali, Colombia.

Ceccarelli, S; Grando, S. December 2006. Decentralized-participatory plant breeding: an example of demand driven research.

CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis. 1999. Crossing Perspectives: Farmers and Scientists in Participatory Plant Breeding. Text by G. Toomey & N. Saad.

Simpson, B. 2000. Best Practices and Ethical Standards in Participatory Plant Breeding: Background synthesis of relevant existing codes. Prepared for the Systemwide Program on Participatory Research (PRGA).Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB), as with other forms of participatory practice, is a composite of interrelated and, at their best, reinforcing elements, each with their own concerns. Among these, much attention has recently been focused on the issues of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and certain technical aspects. In the interest of improving the state-of-the-art in PPB, however, neither IPR nor any other single issue, by themselves, capture the full breadth and depth of PPB practice. To help explore this broader range of issues, a working group was established from among the PPB List members to identify a set of PPB ‘Best Practices,’ focusing particularly on the ethics of establishing honest, transparent, relationships between researchers, farmers and farming communities. To support this group, and to complement other papers under preparation for the PRGA on technical and legal dimensions of PPB, this paper was commissioned with the objectives of:# Searching out background documents on ‘best practice codes,’ or ‘ethical codes,’ of a) organizations with mandates similar to that of the PRGA and b) organizations that specifically work with farming communities and plant material.# Writing a short synthetic document signaling a) trends in ‘best practice’ elements which appear across documents (standard, baseline practices), and b) trends and unique best practice elements which may have specific relevance to "Participatory Plant Breeding".

CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA Program). 2002. Achieving Impact Through Participatory Plant Breeding: Linking quality participation with "quality science". Powerpoint presentation. Part I, II, III and IV. Part IV.

CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA Program). 2002. Achieving Impact Through Participatory Plant Breeding: Linking quality participation with "quality science". Powerpoint presentation. Part I, II, III and IV. Part III.

CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA Program). 2002. Achieving Impact Through Participatory Plant Breeding: Linking quality participation with "quality science". Powerpoint presentation. Part I, II, III and IV. Part II.

CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA Program). 2002. Achieving Impact Through Participatory Plant Breeding: Linking quality participation with "quality science". Powerpoint presentation. Part I, II, III and IV. Part I.