Tubers were the talk of the town in Cusco, Peru during the week of May 27, when the 10th World Potato Congress (WPC) and the
The International Potato Center (CIP for its acronym in Spanish) was recognized with an International IPM Award of Excellence at the 9th International Symposium on
The Crop Trust, an international organization that supports crop germplasm conservation, recently honored Dr. David Ellis, the head of the International Potato Center (CIP) Genebank and
Dr. Maria Isabel Andrade, International Potato Center (CIP) Senior Sweetpotato Breeder, and 2016 World Food Prize co-winner has been awarded the M.S. Swaminathan Award for Environment Protection. The award is a recognition of her seminal role played as a development economist and agricultural development expert over three decades of work.
“The World Food Prize, announced that the 2016 World Food Prize will be awarded to three International Potato Center (CIP) Scientists, Drs. Jan Low, Maria Andrade, and Robert Mwanga and HarvestPlus’ Dr. Howarth Bouis.”
A CIP scientist, Mr. Kwame Ogero, was awarded the best poster prize in the Environment/Food Security category in the just concluded Agricultural Biosciences International Conference (ABIC) 2014.
