Research

Scientists at the International Potato Center (CIP) are shifting their focus to the long-term effects of COVID-19 to anticipate and understand how food systems may be impacted in the coming years.

An interview with co-editors, Dr. Hugo Campos, Director of Research and Oscar Ortiz, CIP’s Deputy Director General of Research and Development at the International Potato Center.

Uno de los primeros intercambios entre la población andina y la tierra, fue a través de la papa. Los primeros indicios de su cultivo datan los 8000 años de antigüedad. Desde entonces, generaciones de agricultores han domesticado miles de variedades.

The International Potato Center has published an open source book on potato research: 'The potato crop: its agricultural, nutritional and social contribution to humankind'.

Three Belgian organisations, ILVO, HOGENT and TRIAS help a local Peruvian agricultural cooperative and university to optimize the semi-industrial production of their traditional tuntas - white freeze-dried potatoes (Chuño)

Tubers were the talk of the town in Cusco, Peru during the week of May 27, when the 10th World Potato Congress (WPC) and the 28th Congress of the Latin American Potato Association (ALAP) were held together for the first time.

El próximo Congreso Mundial de la Papa (WPC) se celebrará del 27 al 31 de mayo de 2018 en en Cusco, Perú. Es la primera vez que se realiza en América Latina y que coincide con el Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP). Conozca el programa tentativo del primero de los eventos.

The 10th World Potato Congress will be held in Cusco Peru in combination with the 28th Congress of the Latin America Potato Association, ALAP from May 27-31, 2018

The International Potato Center (CIP) has published its annual report for 2015.

The three cross cutting themes of gender, partnerships, and capacity building are the main focus of the 2014 CIP annual report. Cooperation is the common thread that binds them all.

During a celebration of Agricultural Research Day on July 15, Alberto Maurer, the Head of Peru’s National Institute for Agricultural Innovation (INIA).

The International Potato Center (CIP) mourns the passing of Dr. Richard L. Sawyer, founder of CIP and its first Director General. Dr. Sawyer passed away on March 9 in Raleigh, North Carolina, in his native USA.

Domestic potato production could amount to 4.5 million tons this year, said the president of the Peruvian National Potato Producers Coordinator (Corpapa), Edilberto Soto Tenorio.

A esa conclusión llegaron los investigadores del CIP que presentaron los resultados de su trabajo en el congreso de la ALAP de Bogotá.

Según los líderes del proyecto, la decisión podría ayudar a los agricultores pobres a tener acceso a semillas de mejor calidad.

State-of-the-art geographic and analytical mapping tools help CIP scientists to anticipate the adverse effects of erosion, urbanization, tourism, mining, and climate change on the potato species, and in turn help to protect the potato for future survival.

Del 14 al 18 de enero, se llevó a cabo en la sede central del CIP, una reunión para la creación de una Red que garantizará el mejoramiento de la calidad nutricional de las raíces y tubérculos.

El Programa de Investigación del CGIAR sobre raíces, tubérculos y plátanos (RTBs, por sus siglas en inglés) viene evaluando las prioridades de investigación que se espera produzcan los mayores impactos sobre el bienestar, la pobreza, la seguridad alime...