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Potato, tomato, pepper, and eggplant or aubergine are key food security and commercial crops. Making their genetic diversity more widely available will support the livelihoods of farmers and other enterprises around the world. This project aims to streamline access to the extensive genetic resour...

Rural communities in Bolivia and Peru rely heavily on potato for their food security and livelihoods. This project fights rural poverty by helping male and female farmers become profitable potato business managers with enhanced resilience to climate variability and change.

Biodiversidad y buenas prácticas de agricultura climáticamente inteligente para mejorar la resiliencia y productividad de la agricultura familiar en sistemas alimentarios andinos basados en papa.

Seleccion de clones de papa con aptitud para procesamiento industrial en bastones y horneado, resistencia a la rancha y producción de semilla de alta calidad fitosanitaria.

In Cameroon, potato is viewed as a useful food security and cash crop, but farmers face multiple productivity constraints. This project aims to increase food security, nutrition and incomes by improving farmers’ access to quality planting materials and training stakeholders on sustainable product...

CIP is working in East Africa to breed varieties of potatoes that combine three forms of resistance to late blight -- the disease that can exact costly tolls on smallholding farmers.

This project aims to improve the livelihoods of Georgian farmers and rural communities by increasing the profitability and sustainability of potato crops and building the capacity of national stakeholders in the seed potato value chain.

Late blight disease in potato is possibly the most devastating crop disease in history. This project seeks to identify new sources of resistance in landraces and wild relatives, which could be used in potato breeding programs around the world to mitigate the risk of future disease outbreaks.

In the latest phase of this project, the International Potato Center (CIP) works with a range of stakeholders to improve dietary diversity and fight malnutrition by introducing biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato and other selected vegetables (pro Vitamin A maize, grand nuts, and moringa) as ...

Sweetpotato is a nutritious and resilient crop. This project builds on earlier work by the International Potato Center (CIP) to tackle the bottlenecks in sweetpotato consumption and delivery to release its economic and nutritional potential in rural Africa and improve nutrition. SASHA II focuses ...