Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Farmers, Scientists and Plant Breeding: Knowledge, Practice and the Possibilities for Collaboration
David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri
Part 1. Farmer Plant Breeders and Collaboration
2 Understanding Farmers' Knowledge as the Basis for Collaboration with Plant Breeders: Methodological Development and Examples from Ongoing Research in Mexico, Syria, Cuba and Nepal
Daniela Soleri, David A. Cleveland, Steven E. Smith,
Salvatore Ceccarelli, Stefania Grando, Ram B. Rana,
Deepak Rijal and Humberto Rios Labrada
3 Economics Perspectives on Collaborative Plant Breeding for Conservation of Genetic Diversity On Farm
Melinda Smale
4 Social and Agroecological Variability of Seed Production and the Potential Collaborative Breeding of Potatoes in the Andee Countries
Karl Zimmerer
5 Farmers' Views and Management of Sorghum Diversity in Western Harerghe, Ethiopia: Implications for Collaboration with Formal Breeding
Shawn J. McGuire
6 How Farmer-Scientist Cooperation is Devalued and Revalued: a Philippine Example
David Frossard
Part 2. Scientific Plant Breeders and Collaboration
7 Selecting with Farmers: the Formative Years of Cereal Breeding and Public Seed in Switzerland (1889-1936)
Jiirg Schneider
8 Theory, Empiricism and Intuition in Professional Plant Breeding
Donald N. Duvick
9 Conceptual Changes in Cuban Plant Breeding in Response to a National Socio-economic Crisis: the Example of Pumpkins
Humberto Rios Labrada, Daniela Soleri and David A. Cleveland
10 Participatory Plant Breeding in Rice in Nepal
Krishna D. Joshi, Bhuwon Sthapit, Madhu Subedi and John
R. Witcombe
11 Collaborative Maize Variety Development for Stress-prone Environments in Southern Africa
Marianne Binziger and Julien de Meyer
12 Plant Breeding with Farmers Requires Testing the Assumptions of Conventional Plant Breeding: Lessons from the ICARDA Barley Program
Salvatore Ceccarelli and Stefania Grando.