Participatory Breeding: Developing Improved and Relevant Crop Varieties With Farmers

Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 259-301

  Weltzien, Eva ^a   Christinck, Anja ^a  

^a Seed4Change ^*

Author keywords

Adaptation; Farmers; Participation; Plant breeding; Seed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977559458     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-802070-8.00008-6     Document Type: Chapter

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