Volume 31, Issue 2, 1 April 2016, Pages 172-184

Plant breeding for local food systems: A contextual review of end-use selection for small grains and dry beans in Western Washington (Article)

^aNorthwestern Washington Research and Extension Center, Washington State University, Mount Vernon, WA, United States
^bDepartment of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States

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Abstract

The rapid growth and co-option of the local agriculture movement highlights a need to deepen connections to place-based culture. Selection of plant varieties specifically adapted to regional production and end-use is an important component of building a resilient food system. Doing so will facilitate a defetishization of food systems by increasing the cultural connection to production and consumption. Today's dominant model of plant breeding relies on selection for centralized production and end-use, thereby limiting opportunity for regional differentiation. On the other hand, end-user-driven selection of heirloom varieties with strong cultural and culinary significance may limit productivity while failing to promote continued advances in end-use quality. Farmer-based selection may directly reflect local food culture; however, increasing genetic gains may require increased exchange of germplasm, and collaboration with trained plant breeders. Participatory farmer-breeder-chef collaborations are an emerging model for overcoming these limitations and adding the strength of culturally based plant breeding to the alternative food movement. These models of variety selection are examined within the context of small grain and dry bean production in Western Washington. © 2015 Cambridge University Press.

Author keywords

commodity defetishization; local food; participatory plant breeding

ISSN: 17421705Source Type: Journal Original language: English

DOI: 10.1017/S1742170515000198Document Type: Article

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Acronym; Sponsor: OFRF; Organic Farming Research Foundation

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