News on Potato Varieties and Seed from Peru

Native potatoes are known for their exquisite, unique taste, their great nutritional properties.  And now their also experiencing an increased demand in local and foreign markets. France and Venezuela are some of the countries already enthralled by the...

In South America’s Andes mountain region, indigenous women have traditionally been responsible for selecting, conserving and managing seed potatoes from the countless native varieties of the crop, thus ensuring diversity and continued production while ...

The Peruvian potato project T’ikapapa has been chosen as the winner of The World Challenge 2007, a global competition promoted by the BBC and Newsweek magazine, in association with Shell.   Make sure you watch BBC World this weekend to see coverage fro...