The 'breeder's eye '- a sociological study on the knowledge in organic plant breeding
Description:
Since the late 1990s for organic farming increasingly debated a reorientation of agricultural research with advanced research and educational perspectives. Organic farming is increasingly faced with the challenge to justify the extraordinary quality of its products and production methods. Conventional classification criteria such as the emphasis on the recycling or the waiver of mineral fertilizers and synthetic chemical pesticides are no longer sufficient for this. Therefore, quality criteria and research methods are required, of the specific ecological quality can be secured. In this context, concepts such as natural phenomenology as an alternative access to the knowledge creation and transdisciplinarity and participation as a multidisciplinary practice and inclusive approaches are discussed. This discourse reveals that it is also not yet succeeded in organic farming, to eliminate the lack of a sociology of knowledge and epistemological foundation. A special dark surrounds the practice of research itself, unlike the in textbooks systematically collected scientific knowledge is so far unknown, as the researchers in their empirical practice generate knowledge and what role it plays particularly well with the experience. This research project aims to elucidate the characteristics of the phenomenon of 'breeder gaze'. The brightening of the 'black box' of breeding practices and the visualization of 'tacit knowledge' contributes to the epistemological foundation of advanced research methods in organic farming, improving to teach and learn from experience to know to understand the growing practice of non-professionally trained breeders and for the development of organic plant breeding, which includes all sources of knowledge. The project in the chosen example of plant breeding is to be regarded as representative, and other specialized research areas can benefit from the knowledge developed.
Executive Institute:
University of Goettingen Details of University of Goettingen
Contract period:
01. 10. 2004 - 30. 09. 2006
Project budget:
71,931 €
Funding Programme:
- BMELV - BÖLN - Federal Organic Farming Scheme and other forms of sustainable agriculture Details of BMELV - BÖLN - Federal Organic Farming Scheme and other forms of sustainable agriculture
Subject:
- Plant Breeding
Purpose of research:
Inventory & Assessment
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) Details of (BMELV)
Project Management Agency:
- Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) Details of BLE