News on Native Potatoes from Peru

May 19, 2008

Peru: women are the guardians of potato diversity

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 ...
 Tikapapa wins BBC World Challenge 2007
December 07, 2007

Peruvian potato project Tikapapa wins BBC World Challenge 2007

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...

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