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Enhancing access to genetic diversity through scaling up participatory plant breeding: Roles of different types of farmer and development organizations in Mali

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Coordinating organisation: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Description: Major Research Domain:
participatory plant breeding, genetic diversity, sorghum, decentralized seed production
Priorities: 2, 4
Goal:To improve farmers productivity and stability of production of sorghum
Purpose:Farmer and community organisations enable farmer participatory variety testing on a large scale, and inititate decentralized seed production and distribution of preferred varieties Outputs:
- To realize large scale testing of new varieties through participatory breeding
- To create a basis for decentralized, demand responsive seed production system for sorghum varieties,
Budget (in &euro): 710000
Start: 2003-01-01
End: 2005-12-31
Categories
ARD-theme: plant production
plant breeding
farming systems
Target country: Mali
Activity: research
management
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Donor organisations: 1
Participating organisations: 1
Programmes funding: 1


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