1997 Global Meeting

25-29 August, Rome, Italy

In 1997, national partners, technical experts and IPGRI staff met to discuss and agree on information needed and methodologies to be used to understand the effects of farmer decision-making, agro-ecosystems and population structure and breeding systems on the genetic diversity of local cultivar population over time. The participants decided to collect and analyze information, data and farmer perceptions by gender, age and ethnic group in six main areas:

• socioeconomic, cultural and biological influences on farmer decision-making

• farmer selection of agromorphological characters

• population structure of local cultivars, including population size, isolation and geneflow between and within cultivars and crop wild relatives 

• environmental selection by agro-ecosystems, including natural factors (e.g. soil, precipitation, temperature, disease, etc.) and managed factors (fertilizer application, irrigation, weeding, harvesting practices, etc.)

• seed/germplasm supply systems, and

• adding value through participatory plant breeding, market, non-market and consumer incentives and agricultural policy

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