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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Participatory Varietal Selection, Participatory Plant Breeding, and Varietal Change

This paper presents a review of participatory varietal selection (PVS) and participatory plant breeding (PPB), highlighting the important differences between them. It provides a number of references to the early work in this area. The review is organized as follows: (1) rationale, (2) the recent development of PVS and PPB, (3) the practice of PPB, (4) impact, and (5) perspectives and prospects.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectPlant breeding techniques and approaches
PublisherWorld Bank
Publication year2006
RegionsGlobal
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typePublications
Resource linkhttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/9182
KeywordsBest practices approaches and techniques; Plant breeding; Agricultural biodiversity