PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND GENDER ANALYSIS (2008)
International Maize, Mauricio R. Bellon, Jane Reeves
CIMMYT ® (www.cimmyt.org) is an internationally funded, nonprofit, scientific research and training organization. Headquartered in Mexico, CIMMYT works with agricultural research institutions...
Badstue, Lone B., Bellon, Mauricio R., Berthaud, Julien, Ramirez, Alejandro, Flores, Dagoberto, Juarez, Xochitl, ...
"This project explored the possible role of collective action among small-scale farmers in managing and maintaining genetic resources in a center of crop diversity. It focused on the local...
Badstue, Lone B., Bellon, Mauricio R., Berthaud, Julien, Ramirez, Alejandro, Flores, Dagoberto, Juarez, Xochitl
"The paper describes and analyzes the way in which small-scale maize farmers in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca secure access to seed of a diverse set of maize landraces. Six communities were studied,...
Badstue, Lone Bech, Bellon, Mauricio R., Berthaud, Julien, Ramírez, Alejandro, Flores, Dagoberto, Juárez, Xóchitl, ...
"This project explored the possible role of collective action among small-scale farmers in managing and maintaining genetic resources in a center of crop diversity. It focused on the local...
Bellon, Mauricio R., Hodson, David, Bergvinson, David, Beck, David, Martinez-Romero, Eduardo, Montoya, Yinha
The Dynamics of Farmers' Maize Seed Supply Practices in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico
Badstue, Lone B., Bellon, Mauricio R., Berthaud, Julien, Ramirez, Alejandro, Flores, Dagoberto, Juarez, Xochitl
The impact of improved maize germplasm on poverty alleviation
Bellon, Mauricio R., Adato, Michelle, Becerril, Javier, Mindek, Dubravka
"This study documents how poor small-scale farmers in lowland tropical Mexico use improved maize germplasm and how this contributes to their well-being. It does this by assessing both the direct...
The impact of improved maize germplasm on poverty alleviation
Bellon, Mauricio R., Adato, Michelle, Becerril, Javier, Mindek, Dubravka
"This study documents how poor small-scale farmers in lowland tropical Mexico use improved maize germplasm and how this contributes to their well-being. It does this by assessing both the direct...
Maize Diversity, Variety Attributes, and Farmers' Choices in Southeastern Guanajuato, Mexico.
Smale, Melinda, Bellon, Mauricio R, Aguirre Gomez, Jose Alfonso
This manual presents methods that enable agricultural scientist and farmers to evaluate technologies/practices jointly. The methods are specifically designed for participatory research on germplasm...
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM PARTICIPATORY METHODS IN PLANT BREEDING
Bellon, Mauricio R., Reeves, Jane
Although participatory plant breeding (PPB) is gaining greater acceptance worldwide, the techniques needed to analyze the data from participatory methodologies in the context of plant breeding are...
Bellon, Mauricio R., Adato, Michelle, Becerril, Javier, Mindek, Dubravka
Crop Production/Industries, Food Security and Poverty,
Badstue, Lone B., Bellon, Mauricio R., Juarez, Xochitl, Manuel, Irma, Solano, Ana M.
This paper explores social arrangements associated with seed transactions among small-scale maize farmers in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico, a centre of crop genetic diversity. A formal seed...
Bellon, Mauricio R., Gambara, Peter, Gatsi, Tendai, MacHemedze, Timothy E., Maminimini, Obert, Waddington, Stephen R.
Soil infertility is a major constraint to food production in the communal areas of Zimbabwe. Smallholders in the region recognize the problems of low soil fertility and have devised ways of coping...
Bellon, Mauricio R., Smale, Melinda, Aguirre, Alfonso, Taba, Suketoshi, Aragon, Flavio, Diaz, Jaime, ...
Identifying the appropriate germplasm to be improved is a key component of any participatory breeding effort because of its implications for impacts on social welfare and genetic diversity. This...
Bellon, Mauricio R., Morris, Michael L.
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
Smale, Melinda, Bellon, Mauricio R., Gomez, Jose Alfonso Aguirre
This study uses an approach derived from models of the private and public characteristics of goods to illustrate (1) the overriding importance of variety attributes in farmers' decisions to allocate...
Interest is increasing worldwide in on-farm conservation as a component of a strategy to conserve crop genetic resources. On-farm conservation may require outside support to small-scale farmers in...
A Regional Analysis of Maize Biological Diversity in Southeastern Guanajuato, Mexico
Gomez, Jose Alfonso Aguirre, Bellon, Mauricio R., Smale, Melinda
Four environments with contrasting potential for agricultural productivity and infrastructure development were identified in Guanajuato State, Mexico, to test hypotheses about the relationship of...