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Red Iberoamericana de Innovación en Mejoramiento y Diseminación de la Papa - logros significativos / significant achievements
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The LatinPapa network – or the Iberoamerican Network for Innovation in Potato Breeding and Dissemination -- represents more than 20 organizations from 11 Latin American countries and Spain. LatinPapa is a regional platform that aims to enhance collaboration between agricultural research institutions, mainly potato improvement programs, organization working on clonal selection and/or demanding new varieties. Despite its short life – LatinPapa began in 2008 – the network has made significant advancements towards achieving its strategic priorities: facilitating exchange of advanced germplasm and parental materials; enhanced dissemination of varieties for accelerated adoption; operative seed systems that are technologically and operationally efficient; and information systems that are accessible. This publication highlights these achievements with specific examples of LatinPapa’s achievements within the potato’s production systems and value chains in member countries. The network currently operates in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Spain, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
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Improving incomes and nutritional health in Bangladesh through potato, sweetpotato and vegetables
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Poverty affects 40 percent of people in Bangladesh, and malnutrition is among the highest in the world, with 56 percent of preschoolers underweight. In an effort to combat these alarming numbers, the International Potato Center (CIP) is launching a new program in disaster-prone southern Bangladesh to raise incomes and improve nutritional health through potato, sweetpotato, and vegetables.
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Seed potato Roadmap setting the course for improved incomes and food security in Eastern Africa
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Potato production in Sub-Saharan Africa has more than doubled since 1994. Despite these gains, potato yields of small-scale farmers in the region fall short due to a potent combination of inadequate supply of high-quality seed and limited awareness of better management practices. Engaging the private sector in seed potato value chains offers a means to unlock this yield gap by overcoming the supply bottleneck for the provision of quality seed.
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Women and Agriculture: A Conversation on Improving Global Food Security
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"Well, one way that we know would yield significant results is investing more in women. "This comes down to a simple matter of numbers. Women make up the majority of the agricultural workforce in many developing countries. They’re involved in every aspect of agricultural production, from planting seeds to weeding fields to harvesting crops. Yet women farmers are 30 percent less productive than male farmers, for one reason: they have access to fewer resources."
