Designing Innovative Management for Cultivated Biodiversity: Lessons from a Pioneering Collaboration between French Farmers, Facilitators and Researchers around Participatory Bread Wheat Breeding

Designing Innovative Management for Cultivated Biodiversity: Lessons from a Pioneering Collaboration between French Farmers, Facilitators and Researchers around Participatory Bread Wheat Breeding

The industrialization of farming has significantly threatened cultivated biodiversity. Participatory breeding endeavours to overcome this issue by enabling farmers to select a wide range of crop varieties in different conditions, and to foster genetic mixing through seed exchanges, crosses or mixtur...

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Main Authors: Elsa T. Berthet, Sara Bosshardt, Lise Malicet-Chebbah, Gaëlle van Frank, Benoit Weil, Blanche Segrestin, Pierre Rivière, Léa Bernard, Elodie Baritaux, Isabelle Goldringer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-01-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
participatory plant breeding
farmers’ population-varieties
innovative design
dynamic on-farm management
agrobiodiversity
design workshops
participatory research
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/2/605

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