CPAD

  New potato variety, Kufri Lima, to take on heat and virus in India   Farmers in India can expect higher yields and profits with the release of a new […]

  A pathway to markets, the Participatory Market Chain Approach   What began in 2002, to facilitate market access for smallholder native potato farmers in Peru has blossomed into a […]

  At restaurants across Cape Verde, Maria Andrade is on the menu. Baked, boiled or fried, the Maria Andrade sweetpotato serves up more than just flavor. It delivers enough micronutrients […]

  Dorcus Gemenet knows about hunger. As a smallholder farmer’s daughter growing up in Western Kenya, she lived the impact of cyclical drought first hand. Withered maize stalks meant more […]

  By the year 2026, the International Potato Center (CIP for its acronym in Spanish) aims to bolster the nutrition and food security of at least 50 million people in […]

  Drones and hand-built cameras, transforming agriculture data collection with tailor-made tools   The International Potato Center (CIP for its acronym in Spanish) is working to improve data collection while […]

  Music is part of agriculture. Agriculture goes with music. Every town has its customs. Cattle raising goes hand-in-hand with agriculture. With cattle, we use the excrement to make fertilizer […]

  My mom, my grandmother, my great-grandparents all kept native potatoes. I don’t want to lose them. I have seven children, and we all grow them together. We plant all […]

  In the past, we used to plant potatoes all year long. But in the last few years, we have seen how our sacred earth is suffering: by using chemical […]

  The story goes that at one time the potato arrived in the form of a person. It arrived in search of lodging. There were people who said they didn’t […]