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Maintaining or Abandoning African Rice: Lessons for Understanding Processes of Seed Innovation

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Title Maintaining or Abandoning African Rice: Lessons for Understanding Processes of Seed Innovation
 
Creator Teeken, Béla
Nuijten, E.
Temudo, M.P.
Okry, F.
Mokuwa, A.
Struik, P.C.
Richards, P.
 
Subject oryza glaberrima
 
Description Rice breeding and crop research predominantly emphasize adaptation to ecological conditions. Based on qualitative and quantitative research conducted between 2000 and 2012 we show how ecological factors, combined with socioeconomic variables, cultural norms and values, shape the use and development of local technologies related to the cultivation of African rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud.) in seven West African countries (Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Togo). In this region the role of African rice is diverse across ethnic groups. Findings suggest that farmers, through various pathways, are active in the development of promising new varieties based on genetic resources of Asian rice, African rice, or both, as well as in the adoption of modern varieties. These findings require further research into interactions among ecological, genetic, socioeconomic and cultural factors within farmers' innovation systems and recognition of emergent knowledge and technologies resulting from such interactions
 
Date 2012-12
2021-12-06T12:34:05Z
2021-12-06T12:34:05Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Teeken, B. Nuijten, E. Temudo, M. P. Okry, F. Mokuwa, A. Struik, P. C. Richards, P. Maintaining or Abandoning African Rice: Lessons for Understanding Processes of Seed Innovation. Human Ecology. 2012, Volume 40, Issue 6: 879-892.
1572-9915
0300-7839
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116545
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-012-9528-x
 
Language en
 
Rights Other
Limited Access
 
Format p. 879-892
 
Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source Human Ecology