Paper presented at the 52nd CFCS Annual Meeting, Guadeloupe, July 10-16, 2016 In addition to the four basic stages of Participatory Plant Breeding in Cuba other tools that allowed the FP constituted a successful process were used, these tools are: 1. Learning in action as interest 2. Schools producers 3. Innovation Festival 4. Exchange visits 5. stays on farms 6. Capacity building of students in local innovation scenarios 7. Creating local seed banks Conclusion Farmer experimentation for the selection of materials more adapted to the specific conditions of farms and management achieves increased efficiency, measured in increasing the performance of their plots in the sufficiency of animal feed of high quality, the satisfaction of their tastes and eating habits, all of which results in an improvement of the life of the farmer and his family. Farmer experimentation for the selection of materials more adapted to the specific conditions of farms and management achieves increased efficiency, measured in increasing the performance of their plots in the sufficiency of animal feed of high quality, the satisfaction of their tastes and eating habits, all of which results in an improvement of the life of the farmer and his family. The FP has achieved the awakening of local innovation in the areas of intervention, I influence on raising yields based on the increase of agricultural biodiversity in species and varieties. It has managed to significantly increase performance through the FP under low-input agriculture on farms where their farmers have selected the most suitable materials. The process is a source of learning for farmers, technicians, extension workers. Knowledge production, selection criteria and increased innovation capacity of farmers and livestock producers. Increased self-esteem of local farmers and food producers for recognition of their capacity for analysis and experimentation, self-organization at the local level for the realization of common goals, its convening power and relationships with other local actors and the possibility to participate in the formulation and implementation of projects of local transformation. The increasing incorporation of women to the extent that perceived benefits for herself and her family and their farming systems, social recognition of their abilities Bibliographic references CRAVERO, V. P., López Anido, F. S., Espósito, M. A. y Cointry, E. L. «Mejoramiento convencional y no convencional de especies hortícolas.», BAG. Journal of basic and applied genetics, 2011, vol. 22, no. 1, ISSN: 0040-5752 VERNOOY, R. Semillas generosas. Mejoramiento participativo de plantas, Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC), 2003, 103 p. ISBN: 1-55250-016-0. RÍOS, L. H. Logros en la implementación del Fitomejoramiento Participativo en Cuba. Cultivos Tropicales, 2003. vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 17-23. ISSN 0258-5936 CIP-UPWARD. Conservación y uso sostenible de la biodiversidad agrícola: libro de consulta Centro Internacional de la papa; Perspectivas de los Usuarios con la Investigación y el Desarrollo Agrícola. Los Baños, Laguna, Filipinas, 2003. 3a v. ISBN: 971-614-029-0. RÍOS, L. H., Nuevas luces del Fitomejoramiento Participativo en Cuba. Cultivos Tropicales, 2003. vol. 24 no. 4, p. 123134. ISSN 0258-5936 VALLEJO, F. A. y Estrada, E., Mejoramiento genético de plantas, 1ª. ed., Palmira: Feriva. 2002, 402 p. ISBN: 9588095-11-5 GABRIEL, J., Herbas, J., Salazar, M. y Thiele, G., Manual técnico de mejoramiento participativo para obtener Nuevas Variedades de papa, Biblioteca Asocam, consulta 15 de diciembre de 2014, http://www.asocam.org/biblioteca/items/ show/596. 15 pp. ASHBY, J.A., Garcia, T., Guerrero, M., Quiros, C.A., Roa, J.L. y Beltrán, J.A., The Effects of Different Types of Farmer Participation in the Management of On-Farm Trials. Agricultural Administration and Extension, 1987. vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 235–2529, doi:10.1016/0269-7475(87)90079-1 HAVERKORT, B., Hiemstra, W., Reijntjes C. y Essers S., Strengthening Farmers’ Capacity for Technology Development. Boletín Informativo ILEIA. Tema en Tecnología de Desarrollo Participativo, 1988, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 3-7, ISSN 1927050X STHAPIT, B.R.J., y Witcombe, J. R., Farmer participatory cultivar improvement: A case of high altitute rice from Nepal. Experimental Agriculture, 1998. vol. 32 pp. 479-496. DOI: 10.1017/S001447970000154X ONU, Convenio sobre Biodiversidad Biológica. 1992.
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