The Catalogue of Potato Varieties from Huancavelica, Peru
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The Catalogue of Potato Varieties from Huancavelica,
Peru Maria Mayer Scurrah & Stef de Haan
Grupo Yanapai Addis Ababa 23-25 Nov 2010
What should this In Situ Catalogue contain?
a. Explicit recognition of communities and farmers maintaining the diversity,
b. inclusion of local ethnobotanical knowledge (nomenclature, histories, preparations),
c. DNA fingerprint for protection and future (re)identification
What should this In Situ catalogue contain ?cont.
d. inclusion of text in the indigenous Quechua language.
e. Comply with law 27811 Informed consent
f). Photographic imagesg) Taxonomic and
agronmic data
STEPS • Identify communities and
farmer families• On farm : morphological
characteristics and photography, ethnobotanical inquiry
• In lab: Molecular Characterization, ploidy counts, species identification
• Legal issues• Writing, design, printing.
• (3 years)
Value of catalogue (survey)
• Farmer recognition and involvement: Proud to share
knowledge • What varieties are grown (f&g)• Varieties can not be
misappropriated .• Local knowledge complemented scientific knowledge (SF) • Tangible to next generation
controversial
• Incomplete. (dinamic)• Use of written quechua• Use of molecular markers• Names • Lack of information on resistance, tolerance, from scientific trials.
Diversidad Morfológica en la Colección
Conclusions • Preserves local knowledge and
creates new knowledge • Diversity visible F&G • Prevents illicit apropiation • Baseline • Empowers and Recognizes
farmers • Beyond de fragility of oral
knowledge to the next generation
• Alliance of scientists &farmer
precipitated a range of new catalogues