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Farmer Participation in Pearl Millet Breeding for Marginal Environment

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/4735/
 
Title Farmer Participation in Pearl Millet Breeding for Marginal Environment
 
Creator Weltzien, E
Whitaker, M L
Anders, M M
 
Subject Millets
 
Description One of the goals of the Consultative Group on International kgricultural Research (CGIAR) is to
Mop strategies and research methods to cope with increasing demand for food production in
light of degrading arvironments. This commitment to integrate growth and povwty alleviation with
anbnmental protection was runford by Agenda 21 (CGIm 1993). A large proponion of the
wrld's poor live in the harsh environments of the arid and semi-arid tropics. It is one of ICRISATs
goals to denlop innovative techniques to improve the impact of its nsearch on the nutritional and
&onomic wdl being of low-income people in these environments. Developing methods to bring
farmas Md sdentists closer together har been one of the approaches used to achieve research
results with more relevance to spec& farming communities. Undemanding her's priorities helps
to target research efforts. Giving farmas oppurtunities to choose, improvise and adapt from a range
of choices will crate more useful technologies (Farrington and Martin. 1988).
 
Date 1996
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4735/1/CP_1049.pdf
Weltzien, E and Whitaker, M L and Anders, M M (1996) Farmer Participation in Pearl Millet Breeding for Marginal Environment. In: proceedings of a workshop on participatory plant breeding , 26-29 July 1995, Wageningen, The Netherlands.