Applying participatory methods to crop diversification in urban agriculure
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Abstract
de las Lajas, Havana province, with the objective of applying
different participatory methodologies, as a tool to support the
traditional extension methods that have been employed in
Urban Agriculture for some years and enabling to solve farmers�??
problems regarding seed diversity access, either from species
or varieties, as well as its management. Therefore, several
stages were needed: the first one corresponded to three
Agrobiodiversity fairs�?? celebration, in which producers had
the opportunity to select different varieties from their favourite
crops, like banana, tomato and pepper. The most selected
varieties were FIAT-01 �??banana-, Amalia �??tomato- and Co-
mandante Largo -pepper. The second stage was aimed at
farmers�?? schools and rural experimentation on green bean,
following farmers�?? criteria that allowed not only to increase
varietal diversity but also to encourage spreading and adopting
these new varieties. At the end of the study, economic profits
of producers�?? access to different varieties are reported.
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