Evaluation of Farmer Field Schools and Farmer Participatory Research contributions to sustainable disease management

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These projects have been supported by USAID linkage funds through The International Potato Center

Collaborators on these projects include:

Karen Garrett, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University
Jeremy Heath, Pennsylvania State University
Rebecca Nelson, Cornell University
Ricardo Orrego, The International Potato Center
Oscar Ortiz, The International Potato Center

Representative Publications

2004. O. Ortiz, K. A. Garrett, J. J. Heath, R. Orrego, and R. J. Nelson. Management of potato late blight in the Andean highlands: Evaluating the benefits of Farmer Participatory Research and Farmer Field Schools. Plant Disease 88:565-571. [PDF]

2002. K. A. Garrett and S. P. Dendy. Prácticas culturales para el manejo del tizón tardío de la papa. [Cultural practices for late blight management.] Pages 111-120 in Complementando la Resistencia al Tizón (Phytophthora infestans) en los Andes. E. N. Fernández-Northcote, editor. Global Initiative for Late Blight, Lima, Peru.

2002. C. C. Mundt, C. Cowger, and K. A. Garrett. Relevance of integrated disease management to resistance durability. Euphytica 124:245-252. [PDF]

2001. K. A. Garrett, R. J. Nelson, C. C. Mundt, G. Chacon, R. E. Jaramillo, and G. A. Forbes. Effects of host diversity on epidemics of potato late blight in the humid highland tropics. Phytopathology 91:993-1000. [PDF]

2001. R. Orrego, J.J. Heath, J. Tenorio, C. Valencia, J.A. Landeo, M. Upadhya, K.A. Garrett, N. Zuniga, A. Mendoza, A. Parraga, L. Cotrina, E. Roncal, M.A. Pacheco, O. Ortiz, R.J. Nelson. Evaluation of potato genotypes through pilot-scale farmer field schools in the Peruvian Andes. Scientist and farmer: partners in research for the 21st Century. Program Report 1999-2000, Pages 225-237.

2000. K. A. Garrett and C. C. Mundt. Host diversity can reduce potato late blight severity for focal and general patterns of primary inoculum. Phytopathology 90:1307-1312. [PDF]



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