Enhancing Biodiversity for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods through Fainter Participation: Experience and Opportunities in SW China
This paper discusses farmer participation in agricultural research, technology development and dissemination of information. Issues and challenges of biodiversity associated with maize breeding and farmers livelihoods are raised and analysed within the rapid changing economic developmentcontext and field realities, a project in southwest China on Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) is described and discussed. This project started in 2000 and aimed to identify possibilities, mechanisms and arrangements for developing more effective linkages and mutually beneficial partnerships between the formal agencies and farmers to address the confronting biodiversity and poverty issues.. The paper concludes by suggesting that farmer participation, and collaboration between formal agencies and farmers are an essential and crucial alternative to address i biodiversity and poverty in sustainable agricultural development and human wellbeing in marginal areas in SW China.
Biodiversity Seed distribution systems Rural livelihood Participatory plant breeding
Yiching Song Ronnie Vernooy Shihuang Zhang
Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing ZIP, P. R. China International Development Research Center (IDRC), STREET OR BOX, Ottawa ZIP, Canada Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (CAAS), Beijing ZIP, P. R. China
国际会议
第九届亚洲玉米大会(the Ninth Asian Regional Maize Workshop)
北京
英文
367-370
2005-09-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）