Farmers’ participation and breeding for durable disease resistance in the Andean region |
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Authors: | Daniel Danial Jan Parlevliet Conny Almekinders Graham Thiele |
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Institution: | (1) Lab. of Plant Breeding, Dept. of Plant Sci., Wageningen University, P.O.Box 386, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands;(2) Chair group Technology and Agrarian Development, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands;(3) Centro Internacional de Papa Proyecto Papa Andina (CIP-Cosude), Apartado 17 21 1977, Quito, Ecuador |
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Abstract: | In the Andean region, the Preduza project and its partners combined breeding for durable disease resistance using locally
adapted cultivars and farmer participatory methods. The approach taken resembles participatory variety selection (PVS). Farmers
participated in the selection of advanced materials, rather than finished cultivars. This paper describes this approach and
reports experiences with farmers–breeders collaboration.
As breeders involved farmers as participants, they learned more about the most important criteria of male and female farmers
for preferred cultivars in the marginal environments of Andean cropping systems. This approach encouraged the use of locally
adapted cultivars (often landraces), made the breeders less dependent on foreign materials, and has resulted in selection
and development of new wheat, barley, common bean, quinoa, potato and maize cultivars.
Breeding programmes based on crossing locally adapted cultivars followed by selection by the breeders in the early phases
of the breeding programmes and by participatory selection with the farmers in the more advanced stages of the breeding programmes
appeared successful. It became clear that breeders must be well acquainted with the farmer preferences such as the requirements
for specific agronomic, storage, processing and marketing traits.
Over a period of five years the centralized formal breeding approach predominantly based on material produced by the international
institutes was replaced by decentralized breeding approaches based largely on local germplasm with extensive farmer participation. |
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Keywords: | Breeding Durable disease resistance Farmer participatory research Farmers preferences Capacity building |
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