Tissue culture for farmers : Participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia
The lack of good quality planting material of farmers' cassava varieties, produced locally and at low cost, is a major constraint limiting the expansion of cassava production in Colombia. This article describes the adaptation of conventional cassava propagation to a low-input scheme for rural tissue...
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| author | Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt H. Hernández, C.M. Larrahondo, N Ospina, G.I. Restrepo M., José M. Muñoz Flórez, Ligia Carmenza Tohme, Joseph M. Roca, W. |
| author_browse | Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt H. Hernández, C.M. Larrahondo, N Muñoz Flórez, Ligia Carmenza Ospina, G.I. Restrepo M., José M. Roca, W. Tohme, Joseph M. |
| author_facet | Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt H. Hernández, C.M. Larrahondo, N Ospina, G.I. Restrepo M., José M. Muñoz Flórez, Ligia Carmenza Tohme, Joseph M. Roca, W. |
| author_sort | Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt H. |
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| description | The lack of good quality planting material of farmers' cassava varieties, produced locally and at low cost, is a major constraint limiting the expansion of cassava production in Colombia. This article describes the adaptation of conventional cassava propagation to a low-input scheme for rural tissue-culture multiplication, developed and run by small, resource-poor farmers (referred in this article as an informalfarmers' seed production system). Developed through a two-phase participatory process by a group of women farmers, a non-governmental organization and International Center for Tropical Agriculture scientists in a farmers' community in the hillsides of southern Colombia, the project resulted in alternative, economical and readily available sources of tissue-culture material and equipment. Rates of multiplication achieved with the system were as high as with conventional tissue-culture procedures. |
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| spelling | CGSpace441902024-11-15T08:53:09Z Tissue culture for farmers : Participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt H. Hernández, C.M. Larrahondo, N Ospina, G.I. Restrepo M., José M. Muñoz Flórez, Ligia Carmenza Tohme, Joseph M. Roca, W. manihot esculenta plant propagation vitroplants farmers role of women rural communities innovation adoption propagación de plantas vitroplantas agricultores papel de la mujer comunidades rurales adopción de innovaciones gender The lack of good quality planting material of farmers' cassava varieties, produced locally and at low cost, is a major constraint limiting the expansion of cassava production in Colombia. This article describes the adaptation of conventional cassava propagation to a low-input scheme for rural tissue-culture multiplication, developed and run by small, resource-poor farmers (referred in this article as an informalfarmers' seed production system). Developed through a two-phase participatory process by a group of women farmers, a non-governmental organization and International Center for Tropical Agriculture scientists in a farmers' community in the hillsides of southern Colombia, the project resulted in alternative, economical and readily available sources of tissue-culture material and equipment. Rates of multiplication achieved with the system were as high as with conventional tissue-culture procedures. 2006-01 2014-10-02T08:33:24Z 2014-10-02T08:33:24Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44190 en Limited Access Cambridge University Press Escobar, RH; Hernandez, CM; Larrahondo, N; Ospina, GI; Restrepo, JM; Munoz, L; Tohme, JM; Roca, WM. 2006. Tissue culture for farmers: participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia. Experimental Agriculture 42(1) 103-120. |
| spellingShingle | manihot esculenta plant propagation vitroplants farmers role of women rural communities innovation adoption propagación de plantas vitroplantas agricultores papel de la mujer comunidades rurales adopción de innovaciones gender Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt H. Hernández, C.M. Larrahondo, N Ospina, G.I. Restrepo M., José M. Muñoz Flórez, Ligia Carmenza Tohme, Joseph M. Roca, W. Tissue culture for farmers : Participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia |
| title | Tissue culture for farmers : Participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia |
| title_full | Tissue culture for farmers : Participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia |
| title_fullStr | Tissue culture for farmers : Participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tissue culture for farmers : Participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia |
| title_short | Tissue culture for farmers : Participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia |
| title_sort | tissue culture for farmers participatory adaptation of low input cassava propagation in colombia |
| topic | manihot esculenta plant propagation vitroplants farmers role of women rural communities innovation adoption propagación de plantas vitroplantas agricultores papel de la mujer comunidades rurales adopción de innovaciones gender |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44190 |
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