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.
 

(Click to enlarge) International Potato Center Global Presence

International Potato Center Global Presence

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Noticias de esta Compañia

Febrero 19, 2012

Consiguen adaptar diez variedades de papa a calor extremo en Parú

La papa es un tubérculo serrano que se cultiva de manera óptima entre los 3 mil y 3 mil 800 metros sobre el nivel del mar, a temperaturas entre 15 y 25 grados centígrados. Sin embargo, estudios realizados por el Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agra...
Peru
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Native potatoes
Febrero 19, 2012

Native potatoes get a clean start from repatriated in-vitro seedlings

Traditional potato farming practices in the Andes that once provided in situ conservation of the vast diversity of native varieties have been waning over the past decades. Roads now bring in truckloads of rice, pasta and other sources of convenient car...
Peru
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Enero 27, 2012

Innovación para el Desarrollo: La Experiencia Papa Andina

Innovación para el Desarrollo: La Experiencia Papa Andina, es un libro que recoge 25 artículos que tratan, a partir de la experiencia de Papa Andina y sus socios, diversos aspectos de una estrategia que los centros del CGIAR y sus socios nacionales est...
Peru
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Enero 04, 2012

Seed potato multiplication receives new support in Uzbekistan

The International Potato Center's main partner in Uzbekistan, the National University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent received a US$2.8 million grant from the Government to implement a seed potato multiplication project using the three CIP clones released in the past two years.
Uzbekistan
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