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Can agricultural citizen science improve seed systems? The contributions of crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies

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Title Can agricultural citizen science improve seed systems? The contributions of crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies
 
Creator Bessette, Guy
 
Subject participatory approaches
farmers
seeds
data collection
 
Description Using on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (tricot) for crowdsourcing participatory variety selection is a new citizen–science methodology for agriculture. Developed by Bioversity International as part of a programme known as Seeds for Needs, it allows large numbers of farmers to test different technologies on their farms. Farmers receive packages of seeds with a different combination of three different varieties, randomly selected from a large and diverse set of varieties to be tested. They submit their feedback in simple format, ranking the ‘best / middle / worst’ of each package for different traits. These farmer-generated data are then combined with environmental and socioeconomic data and analyzed with specific, novel statistical methods for ranking. Based on a review of several years of crowdsourcing experience in countries around the world, this report summarizes the different features and contributions of the tricot methodology to improve the
functionality of seed systems.
 
Date 2018
2019-09-26T11:09:12Z
2019-09-26T11:09:12Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Bessette, G. (2018) Can agricultural citizen science improve seed systems? The contributions of crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies. Working Paper Series No: 1. Hyderabad, India: CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals, and Rome, Italy: Bioversity International, p. 20 ISBN: 978-93-86527-03-5
978-93-86527-03-5
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103762
http://oar.icrisat.org/11180/
 
Language en
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format 20 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals
Bioversity International