<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/35fab3f9-a560-45fd-bee0-31302ac706dc/333C0CF8-3E6C-4B3E-9506-BE929B6E561C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-5559-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html" href="http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-5559-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.idrc.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-5559-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html"><H2>Farmers as Researchers: The Rise of Participatory Plant Breeding</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-5559-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html"><DIV>Modern plant breeding stands among the greatest scientific and human success stories of all time. Yet the fruits of major advances in agricultural science, such as those from the Green Revolution, have bypassed hundreds of millions of farmers in developing countries, most of whom<I> </I>operate small farms under unstable and difficult growing conditions. The adoption of new plant varieties by this group has been abysmally low. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-5559-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html"><P><DIV><A jacqueline?="Jacqueline?" dr="" name=""></A><B>Dr Jacqueline Ashby</B>, Coordinator, Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program (PRGA), International Center for Tropical Agriculture (<ACRONYM title="Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical">CIAT</ACRONYM>), A.A. 6713, Cali, Colombia; Tel: (57-2) 445-0000; Fax: (57-2) 445-0073; E-mail: <A href="http://www.idrc.ca/en/mailto: ciat-prga@cgiar.org">ciat-prga@cgiar.org</A> </DIV><BR /><A louise?="Louise?" dr="" name=""></A><B>Dr Louise Sperling</B>, Coordinator, Participatory Plant Breeding Working Group, PRGA Program; E-mail: <A href="http://www.idrc.ca/en/mailto: l.sperling@cgiar.org">l.sperling@cgiar.org</A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/333C0CF8-3E6C-4B3E-9506-BE929B6E561C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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