International Potato Center (CIP)

International Potato Center (CIP)

International Potato Center (CIP)

https://www.cipotato.org

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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 (CIP)
CIP South Asia Regional Centre (CSARC)
The International Potato Center’s South Asia Regional Centre (CSARC), located in Singna, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, is a cutting-edge research facility dedicated to advancing the development of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and other root and tuber crops.
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October 28, 2011
Muestras de papa nativa peruana procesada y algunos subproductos
La Iniciativa Papa Andina del Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) guarda en su oficina de Lima muestras de papa nativa procesada y algunos subproductos que actualmente se comercializan en el Perú. Aproveché mi estadía allí para tomar algunas fotos. D...
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Peru
Masaï vrouw wordt aardappelpionier
October 28, 2011
Masaï vrouw wordt aardappelpionier
Christine Nashuru lijkt een traditionele Masaï vrouw, lang en stil. Ze leeft in het Transmara district in Kenia. Ze heeft, doordat ze vrouw is, geen formeel onderwijs genoten, maar, dankzij een cursus van het CIP (International Potato Center) is zij nu...
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Kenya
The International Potato Center in Peru has preserved almost 5,000 native potato varieties.
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.
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United States
In Kenya, a Maasai woman becomes a potato seed production pioneer
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%.
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Kenya

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