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Participatory Plant Improvement

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This proceedings contains the following papers: participatory methods to enhance the quality of germplasm collections (Bramel-Cox, P.J.; Christinck, A.); evaluating pearl millet cultivars with farmers (Christinck, A.; vom Brocke, K.); farmers' participation in pearl millet breeding 9n marginal environments of Rajasthan (Yadav, O.P.); farmer participation in pearl millet research in Namibia (Bidinger, F.R.); farmers' participatory varietal selection for improving rabi sorghum productivity in India (Rana, B.S.; Kaul, S.L.; Appaji, C.; Reddy, B.V.S.; Witcombe, J.R.; Virk, D.S.); farmers' participatory research in the development of an integrated pulse pest management programme in southern Asia (Ranga Rao, G.V.; Rameshwar Rao, V.); farmers' participatory on-farm evaluation of groundnut foliar disease management technologies in the state of Andhra Pradesh (Pande, S.; Upadhyaya, H.D.); a participatory plant breeding program at Jeypore, Wayanad, and Kolli hills (Arunachalam, V.; Geeta Rani; Sharma, S.D.; Anil Kumar, N.; Hanaper, D.); gender dimensions in farmers' participatory research (Kanvinde, H.S.); voluntary code of conduct and issues related to access and benefit sharing (Balakrishna, P.); major areas of concern; participatory plant breeding - an overview