Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Seeds for Needs factsheet 1: A participatory approach for landrace evaluation

This factsheet summarizes an initiative involving farmers in Ethiopia to evaluate wheat accessions and identify those suitable for their circumstances. The aim of the approach is to better understand the priority traits of farmers so that plant breeders can identify priority accessions for distribution.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectPlant breeding techniques and approaches
PublisherAlliance Bioversity International & CIAT
Publication year2015
RegionsAfrica
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typeLearning materials
Resource linkhttps://alliancebioversityciat.org/publications-data/participatory-approach-landrace-evaluation
KeywordsBest practices approaches and techniques; Plant breeding