pbg -- Plant Breeding Group Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis
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TO: Members of the Plant Breeding Group Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis This message is starting off an email list-serve, connecting members of the Plant Breeding Group with the SWP PRGA. We now number about fifty, with representation from the CGIAR, NARS, university and NGO sector. Given that all of you have expressly asked to be added to this list-serve, I sense that a lengthy introduction is unnecessary. The purpose of this communication network is to share information (on meetings, relevant publications, etc.); and stimulate interactive dialogue/debate on issues related to Participatory Approaches in Plant Breeding. Each of you is welcome to initiate dialogue through this network. Note that a second list-serve will also be set up under the aegis of the Plant Breeding Group to focus on ways of strengthening farmers' own breeding and varietal maintenance systems. The rationale for havingtwo sub-discussions within the Plant Breeding Group is to save everyone's time (and money). When sketching lists of scientists and development workers interested in approaches to: a) "Involving farmers more effectively in formal breeding work" and then those focusing on b) "Working with farmers on their own breeding and varietal maintenance systems", it became clear that there was relatively little overlap between the groups. We want to avoid flooding colleagues with emails that are outside their domains of interest. So with this note, the general breeding email list-serve has been initiated. Welcome to all. Louise Sperling Plant Breeding Group Facilitator To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the pbg Archives. (The current archive is only available to the list members.)
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