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Peru research center to fortify potatoes to fight malnutrition
Research center in Peru published guide for potato varieties
An 'Image Problem' for a Food That Could Save African Lives
Govt plans for output losses due to climate change
An 'Image Problem' for a Food That Could Save African Lives
Research center in Peru published guide for potato varieties
Peru research center to fortify potatoes to fight malnutrition
CIP employs breeding to enrich potato nutritional value
CIP publishes catalogue on advanced clones of potato
CIP publishes advanced clones and potato varieties in online catalogue
Pumping up Potatoes to provide the nutrient iron to the poor
Pumping up potatoes for poor communities – iron biofortification
Pumping up the Peruvian Potato with More Iron
Beijing's potato research, hope and concern
1.200 semillas de papas nativas serán conservadas en el Ártico
Parque de la Papa – The Potato Park
Erratic rainfall driving switch from maize to potatoes in Kenya
Sa chair sucrée et farineuse se prête à de nombreuses recettes, du gratin à la confiture !
Svalbard seed vault to take Peruvian potato samples
Las variedades resistentes hacen la diferencia entre tener suficiente para comer - o no
U.S., Brazil Join to Boost Mozambique's Farm Sector
Superficie sembrada de papa alcanzaría las 296 mil hectáreas durante el 2011
A celebrar el Día Nacional de la Papa
La carga de una vida
Cambio climatico afectara cultivo bandera de la sierra "la papa": El investigador del Centro Internacional de la Papa señala que el cambio climático afectará al cultivo de la papa. Una de las principales consecuencias que ya se pueden observar es que las papas están cambiando la altitud en las cuales crecen. Esta entrevista esparte de la campaña radial sobre el Cambio Climático, Clima Yachaywasi.
El 30 de mayo: “Día Internacional de la Papa”
Papa para el mundo
LA PAPA: SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA Y CRECIMIENTO DE PEQUEÑOS PRODUCTORES
296 mil hectáreas de papa tendrá Perú este año
Ministerio de Agricultura celebra el día Nacional de la papa
Chefs destacan papel de la papa en la gastronomía naciona
EEUU y Europa principales mercados destino de papa amarilla y nativa
Siembra de papas alcanzaría las 296 mil hectáreas este año
CIP destaca cambios visibles debido a las innovaciones en la cadena de la papa que mejoran la seguridad alimenticia y la economía de los pequeños productores
EEUU y Europa son principales mercados destino de papa amarilla y nativa del Perú
EE.UU. y Europa son principales mercados de papa amarilla y nativa del Perú
Perú tiene la colección más grande de variedades de papa en el mundo
Peruvian spuds have high-tech home
Atlassian Do-Gooder 2011 Winner - International Potato Center (CIP)
Rootcrops can help save rice
The potato preserve
Peru institute is Noah’s Ark of potatoes
Peru gene bank protects world's potatoes
Protecting potatoes: Peru site guards varieties that could play survival role
Climate Change gives edge to pests
Simple little spud helps scientists crack potato's mighty genome
In Nairobi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel puts on lab coat, meets young bioscientists fighting hunger in Africa
Zooming on the secret life of genetic resources in potatoes: high technology meets old-fashioned footwork: CIP team -- Henry Saul Juarez Soto, Franklin Plasencia and Stef de Haan -- win thrid prize in International Conservation Mapping Contest
Potato project aims to create spuds as you'll like: An international project based in Peru hopes that by decoding the potato's entire genetic code, it will allow future breeders to create pest-resistant spuds
Presentan los aportes a base de tunta o chuño blanco en Puno: El centro internacional de la papa (CIP) y la agencia suiza para el desarrollo y la cooperación (COSUDE) destacaron la importancia de innovación para generar impactos positivos en la seguridad alimentara y genera los ingresos usados como ejemplo el exitoso caso del sector tunta o chuño blanco en Puno. Esta actividad se desarrollo en las instalaciones del hotel Quelcatani.
New potato varieties to improve livelihoods and incomes in Mozambique: “The timely availability of seed of well-adapted varieties will enhance the sustainability and economics of potato production in Mozambique,” notes CIP’s Maria Andrade, breeder and seed system specialist.
Nigeria, others to benefit from sweet potato initiative: Nigeria and 13 other African countries will benefit from the `Sweet Potato for Profit and Health Initiative,’ being developed by the Nairobi, Kenya-based International Potato Centre.
Comer patatas rebaja la presión arterial, según estudio: La mala fama de las patatas como alimentos que engordan debería ser revisada, así lo demuestra un estudio científico que revela que el consumo moderado del tubérculo reduce la presión arterial y no produce aumento de peso.
Super spuds help beat hidden hunger in Uganda: Around 32% of children under five in Africa have such low levels of vitamin A that they are at huge risk of illness, poor vision, and even blindness. Distributing vitamin A capsules works, but it doesn't address the root cause of vitamin A deficiency. This is where the new sweet potato varieties come in.
Capturing Stakeholder Perspectives to Enhance Impact: When 255 stakeholders spread across three continents were tasked with designing a research program (in two short months) with the potential to effectively impact food security, nutrition, and income, they knew they had their work cut out for them. Especially, when you consider that it was logistically impossible to get all of them together in one room at the same time.
Research suggests potato may be best natural source of potassium: Potatoes have come under much scrutiny over the years and have been linked with the nation’s growing obesity problem, but new research suggests the vegetable is the largest and most affordable source of potassium of any fruit or vegetable.
Underground Treasures: Root and Tuber Crops for Food Security in Asia-Pacific: The Root and Tuber Crops for Food Security in Asia-Pacific is a CIP project funded by IFAD, approved in December 2010. How did this project start? In 2008 during the rice crisis, IFAD sent a mission to Asia for verifying how to rapidly increase the production of rice. But once there, we found that the farmers were actually eating roots and tuber crops, so we decided to focus on these instead, for enhancing food security.
Orissa included in International programme for Roots & Tuber Crops: In another step towards food security, Odisha has been included in International programme for Roots & Tuber Crops ( RTC) initiated by International Potato Center ( known by its Spanish acronym CIP). A two day long Project Planning Meeting of the programme has been inaugurated by Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik.
Climate smart agriculture, additionality and business as usual: Movement of potato farmers up the Andes to escape the pests and diseases from a warming world will result in the destruction of carbon-rich grasslands. Crop insurance may help deal with crop failures due to extreme events in the short term, but may in the long term be maladaptive – the real solution being more transformative adaptation (changing crop species, out-migration etc). So, CSA is different from business as usual in that the trade-offs amongst production increases, adaptation and mitigation are explicitly recognised and dealt with, both for short and long time scales.
How the Potato Changed the World: Today the potato is the fifth most important crop worldwide, after wheat, corn, rice and sugar cane. But in the 18th century the tuber was a startling novelty, frightening to some, bewildering to others—part of a global ecological convulsion set off by Christopher Columbus.
In Kenya, a Maasai woman becomes a potato seed production pioneer: But potatoes are taking on increased importance in Transmara District, and in Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. Since 1994, potato production in Sub-Saharan Africa has more than doubled. In Transmara, it began in 2000, with potato grown as a kitchen garden crop. Farmers bought tubers from the local markets and used them as seed. However, potato yields of small-scale farmers in the region fall far short of their potential. The farmers face an inadequate supply of high-quality seed, coupled with their own limited awareness of better seed management practices.
Seed potato Roadmap setting the course for improved incomes and food security in Eastern Africa: 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.
Researchers Work to Save Peru’s Food Diversity: Quick – what’s the first crop that comes to mind when you think about food from Peru? If you’re like most people, you might say the potato. Potatoes originated in Peru, and there are thousands of varieties in the country. But there’s a lot more to Peruvian food than potatoes. Even at the International Center for the Potato, or CIP.
Orange Sweet Potato Reduces Risk of Vitamin A Deficiency among Children and Women in Mozambique: Harvest Plus press release: "A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition indicates that orange sweet potato (OSP) is effective in providing vitamin A to "malnourished women and children in Mozambique, where the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is very high.
Sweet Potato Gets Funding: Two research centers have announced funding for scientists to study the Thanksgiving staple
Preserving the Genetic Riches of the Sweet Potato - Forever: Sweet potato, one of the world's most important and versatile food crops, is consumed widely in many African countries. Farmers produce about 12 million tons of sweet potatoes annually in Africa alone, where the vegetable is a staple food in much of Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania.
Ecuadorian Firm Cooks a Gourmet Snack for U.S. Market: Martín Acosta isn’t looking to take over the $7 billion U.S. market for potato chips. He’s just aiming for the slice of the U.S. market represented by the “elite group” of snackers who he is sure will be enticed by his chips from Ecuador.
Interview with CIP scientist Steff de Haan in VPRO radio (in Dutch)
Sweet Potato, Sweet Success: "Mama Sasha": A program integrating nutrition education and distribution of orange-fleshed sweet potato vines within prenatal care is reaching target audiences at unexpectedly high rates – boosting both health and agricultural impacts.
A sweet potato a day...: A helping of an orange coloured sweet potato just twice a week could save lives in Mozambique. This is no ordinary sweet potato - it has been bred to have a high beta-carotene content, a compound rich in vitamin A, which is found naturally in the root, hence the more intense orange colour. The human body is unable to synthesise vitamin A and has to obtain it from external sources.
Lima-based CIP to launch grand scheme to tap potato potential: The bright prospects for utilising potato in the reduction of poverty and malnutrition have been on the rise with the gradual increase in the harvest of the crop-food item in the country over the past years, experts said on Sunday.
Regional efforts to promote vitamin A-rich potato stepped up: The orange-fleshed sweet potato is now a big source of nutrition and income for farmers who add value to it by making cakes, doughnuts, biscuits, juice and porridge. Regional scientists are rooting for the growing of the crop because it has multiple uses as it is consumed in its entirety; the leaves, shoots and roots.
Pueblos andinos reciben ejemplares de tubérculos nativos: El Parque de la Papa, una iniciativa de conservación de seis comunidades quechua-hablantes del Cusco, en el suroriente peruano, recibió aproximadamente medio millar de ejemplares in vitro de raíces y tubérculos andinos libres de patógenos para restablecer y mantener la reserva genética de sus cultivos.
New Potatoes Varieties Spell Prosperity for Tanzania Farmers…..Maybe: A recent case study by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) showcases a new effort to produce high quality “seed” potatoes for farmers in Tanzania. Better seed and more modern varieties, experts say, could spark dramatic increases in production not only in Tanzania but possibly throughout Eastern and Southern Africa.
Researchers Outline Food Security-Climate Change Road Map in Science: While last month’s climate negotiations in Durban made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt to climate change and reduce agriculture’s climate footprint, a group of international agriculture experts, writing in the January 20 issue of Science magazine, urges scientists to lay the groundwork for more decisive action on global food security in environmental negotiations in 2012.
Gates Calls Attention to Hunger: “We get a strong response on health issues,” he said by telephone. “But when we show a farmer getting better sweet potatoes that are more nutritious, the response is even stronger.”
NSF Provides Additional $5.9 Million to Support Five New BREAD Program Projects: Projects will use innovative approaches to advance basic research on key problems involving small farmer agriculture in the developing world
Native potatoes get a clean start from repatriated in-vitro seedlings: Traditional potato farming practices in the Andes that once provided in situ conservation of the vast diversity of native varieties have been waning over the past decades. Roads now bring in truckloads of rice, pasta and other sources of convenient carbohydrates to these once remote villages 4,000 meters above sea level.
Environmentally Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture is Possible: The panellists gave excellent examples of sustainable approaches that are working, and in many cases being scaled up. Pamela Anderson of the CGIAR-affiliated International Potato Center explained how a new multi-functional smallholder agriculture provides a range of livelihood opportunities within households and communities, giving smallholders a “portfolio” of income opportunities, and spreading their risk.
Swansong of an influential project: One of Latin America's longest running and most innovative projects has marked its completion by publishing a book about its experience.
World Scientists Define United Approach to Tackling Food Insecurity: Report offers roadmap for action by global leaders to create a sustainable food system
A Clarion Call on the Food Supply: Underlying the price jump is a tight balance between supply and demand, and it has come to a head at a time when people are becoming more aware of the challenges that climate change will pose to food production.
Farming needs 'climate-smart' revolution, says report: Major changes are needed in agriculture and food consumption around the world if future generations are to be adequately fed, a major report warns.

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