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| Name | Decentralised Participatory Plant Breeding |
| Description | Ceccarelli, S. and S. Grando. 1999. Decentralised Participatory Plant Breeding. ILEIA.The objective of this PPB project conducted in Syria is to test an alternative way of producing improved varieties of crops, such as barley, for marginal environments. The project operates in 9 villages chosen to represent variations in annual rainfall, soil types, management practices, farm sizes and types of participatory selection. The project compared the following four strategies of selection:• By farmers in their own fields (decentralised participatory selection)• By farmers on the research station (centralised participatory selection)• By the breeder in farmers fields (decentralised non-participatory selection)• By the breeder in the research station (centralised non-participatory selection)Farmers acquired the ability to conduct the trials without supervision, and were able to formulate suggestions about potential parents for crosses. They were able to explain the project to other farmers. Farmers began to realise that there could be many different types of barley. We showed farmers how crosses were made, and the different types of barley generated by a single cross. In one of the villages, a farmer’s wife suddenly started sitting in the same room with us ‘foreigners’ and began participating in the discussion. Such a change obviously makes it much easier to find out the preferences of women which would otherwise be ‘filtered’ through the men. These reactions may seem small, but they indicate that this approach can have a major impact on variety adoption, skill building, increased female participation, and the capacity of farmers to redirect plant breeding and shape agricultural research to their needs. |
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