PLANT BREEDING AND LOCAL PARTICIPATION. AN EXPERIENCE IN CUBA

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Lucy Martin

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This paper studies, from a social prospect, the work experiences of a multidisciplinary team of INCA in three agricultural production cooperatives in South Havana and one service and credit cooperative of �??La Palma�?�, Pinar del Río, with the aim of finding other formal plant breeding ways through a participatory approach. Firstly, it is notable to observe how producers involved into a plant breeding experience are submitted to technical and social changes, which in turn demand some motion towards two directions: participation and decentralization. This experience enables to build a new knowledge by breaking myths through a knowledge dialogue among producers meanwhile there are technical changes within seed and varietal environment, but also social ones. Secondly, it shows the possibility of such kind of experience, as a sustainable development objective and as a way of reconstruction from the basis of our social project, since it is feasible for strengthening producers and coordinating main roles at the seed system and community life centered amound common interests.

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Martin, L. (2014). PLANT BREEDING AND LOCAL PARTICIPATION. AN EXPERIENCE IN CUBA. Cultivos Tropicales, 24(4 Inglés), 22–28. Retrieved from https://ediciones.inca.edu.cu/index.php/ediciones/article/view/886
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