Hybrid potato breeding: A framework for mapping contested socio-technical futures

Beumer, Koen; Edelenbosch, Rosanne

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2019.01.004

Cited by 26 publications

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“…The main challenge is the lack of information and visibility of the supply and demand. However, not only the farmers but also the stakeholders within the supply chain, including Input suppliers, Logistic Suppliers, Exporters, and Policymakers (Struik, 2006;Ortiz et al, 2013;Beumer & Edelenbosch, 2019), even face issues due to the lack of information at the time of decision making. Hence, targeting the selected stakeholders in Sri Lankan potato cultivation, a closed-loop supply chain model was designed to increase visibility by providing real-time information to reduce wastage.…”

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Designing a closed-loop information flow model in bridging the market information gap among agriculture stakeholders in Sri Lanka

Mallikaarachchi

Samaraweera

Walisadeera

et al. 2022

J. Natn. Sci. Foundation Sri Lanka

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The stakeholders in the agriculture domain need agricultural information and relevant knowledge to make informed decisions at various stages of the crop life cycle. Coordination failures among the stakeholders in the agriculture sector result in the inability to provide accurate, timely, and actionable information. As a result, the agriculture sector faces several challenges, such as oversupply, undersupply and crop wastage. The existing digital agriculture eco-system can gather data produced by different stakeholders more frequently and accurately. However, the data collected from various stakeholders should be analyzed and forecasted to deliver the required knowledge to make more informed and appropriate decisions. This study was carried out to propose a 'Closedloop information flow model' to provide forecasted demand and supply to create better coordination among stakeholders. Different prototypes were designed to deliver forecasted demand and supply information for major stakeholders in the agriculture sector. Initially, farmers, input suppliers, and logistic suppliers were selected in this study to expand to other stakeholders in the future. The prediction model was developed and evaluated according to stakeholder requirements by analyzing the actual and predicted data. The existing 'Govi-Nena' mobile-based farmer application was refined to provide supply and demand information for farmers. Separate web dashboards were designed to deliver the required information to other stakeholders such as input suppliers and logistic suppliers. Designed prototypes will be evaluated with the stakeholders for further improvements. The proposed Closedloop information flow model for forecasted demand and supply will bridge the market information gap among stakeholders.Thus, it will reduce the coordination failures in the Sri Lankan agriculture sector while increasing transparency in making informed decisions.

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confidence: 99%

Designing a closed-loop information flow model in bridging the market information gap among agriculture stakeholders in Sri Lanka

Mallikaarachchi

Samaraweera

Walisadeera

et al. 2022

J. Natn. Sci. Foundation Sri Lanka

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“…As an emerging and promising innovation hybrid diploid potato breeding is still developing and its impact is hence largely in the future. The potential implications of hybrid diploid breeding for the governance of potato genetic resources were therefore investigated by systematically mapping expectations among those stakeholders that are in the best position to judge about these futures (Beumer and Edelenbosch 2019). These expectations are salient not only because they shed light on how the possible socio-technical constellations for governing potato genetic resources may look like in the future.…”

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“…Initially the Solynta company indeed sought to ensure profitability from its large investments in a hybrid breeding program by filing a patent on the technology used to create inbred parent lines. In this context, it made serious efforts to make other actors enthusiastic about hybrid breeding, also sharing information about the technology to other breeding firms (Beumer and Edelenbosch 2019). However, while a patent has been granted to the company in a number of countries outside the European Union, in Europe their patent application remained unsuccessful because of the new EU patent regulation that puts a ban on patents concerning natural materials and the materials to produce them (interview seed company 14 December 2017; European Patent Office 2017).…”

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Innovation and the commons: lessons from the governance of genetic resources in potato breeding

Beumer

Stemerding²,

Swart

2020

Agric Hum Values

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This article explores the relation between innovation and resources that are governed as commons by looking at the governance of potato genetic resources, especially in the context of the emergence of hybrid diploid potato breeding that will enable potato propagation through true seeds. As a new breeding tool, hybrid diploid potato breeding may not only revolutionize traditional potato breeding practices, it may also strongly affect current governance modes of potato genetic resources as a commons. Contrary to conventional accounts of the commons that treat technological innovation mainly as an exogenous factor, we argue that technological innovation can better be understood as an endogenous factor. In particular, we develop a co-production framework of innovation and the commons that draws attention to the different ways in which innovation, commons and its governance interact. Using this framework, we demonstrate that the constitution of potato genetic resources as a commons cannot be understood without considering the various ways in which technological innovation affects resources and mediate how these are governed. While reversely, technological innovations themselves are also enabled and constrained by users who govern potato genetic resources as a shared resource. We argue that changes in the governance of genetic resources can be understood as a change from one socio-technical constellation to another, whereby innovations, resources, and institutions are continuously co-produced.

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“…Successful uptake of an innovation is determined by whether it is accepted by society and whether it has added value for the user. The case of hybrid potato breeding has led to a number of studies [ 71 , 72 ] in which the question whether hybrid potato was acceptable for society and in what form was investigated. A number of potential scenarios were discussed by stakeholders from the potato value chain.…”

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Converting Hybrid Potato Breeding Science into Practice

Vries¹,

Adams

Eggers

et al. 2023

Plants

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Research on diploid hybrid potato has made fast advances in recent years. In this review we give an overview of the most recent and relevant research outcomes. We define different components needed for a complete hybrid program: inbred line development, hybrid evaluation, cropping systems and variety registration. For each of these components the important research results are discussed and the outcomes and issues that merit further study are identified. We connect fundamental and applied research to application in a breeding program, based on the experiences at the breeding company Solynta. In the concluding remarks, we set hybrid breeding in a societal perspective, and we identify bottlenecks that need to be overcome to allow successful adoption of hybrid potato.

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Hybrid potato breeding: A framework for mapping contested socio-technical futures

Cited by 26 publications

References 9 publications

Designing a closed-loop information flow model in bridging the market information gap among agriculture stakeholders in Sri Lanka

Designing a closed-loop information flow model in bridging the market information gap among agriculture stakeholders in Sri Lanka

Innovation and the commons: lessons from the governance of genetic resources in potato breeding

Converting Hybrid Potato Breeding Science into Practice

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