International Potato Center (CIP)

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The International Potato Center or Centro Internacional de la Papa (also known by its Spanish acronym, CIP) seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries.

The Center works to achieve this through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweet potato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.
 

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International Potato Center Global Presence

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Potatoes International Potato Center Peru
October 24, 2011

How the potato changed the world

When potato plants bloom, they send up five-lobed flowers that spangle fields like fat purple stars. By some accounts, Marie Antoinette liked the blossoms so much that she put them in her hair.
United States
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Kenya
October 24, 2011

In Kenya, a Maasai woman becomes a potato seed production pioneer

A CIP project in Kenya and other African nations is fostering private adoption of a three-generation seed multiplication strategy. Combined with improved knowledge and skills the project should lead to average yield increases of 20%.
Kenya
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October 14, 2011

"Innovación para la seguridad y la soberanía alimentaria en la región andina", un nuevo proyecto de la Iniciativa Papa Andina

Papa Andina es una iniciativa regional coordinada por el Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP). Su objetivo principal es promover sistemas de innovación que favorezcan a agricultores pobres dentro de las cadenas productivas, a fin de mejorar su segurid...
Peru
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October 01, 2011

El CIP investiga dos nuevas variedades de papa en Ecuador

Aunque la biodiversidad ecuatoriana de papa menciona 400 variedades nativas identificadas, no más de seis se siembran comercialmente en la Sierra y de estas el 1,5% utilizando semilla certificada . En buena parte esto explica el bajo promedio del rend...
Ecuador
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