UK Invests in Six Super Crops to Help Beat Global Hunger
06/10/2013 The UK government granted £30 million to HarvestPlus to develop and deliver six nutritious crops to several million farming households…
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La iniciativa que busca conservar la diversidad de nuestras papas nativas
05/27/2013 Monitorear la variedad de estos tubérculos in situ es el objetivo del Chirapaq Ñan, programa que teje una red de…
Sweet potato proves another key crop in sub-Saharan Africa
05/24/2013 The sweet potato is the third most important food crop in seven sub-Saharan Africa countries due to negative effects of…
DFID Research: Keeping people, economies and potatoes healthy
05/17/2013 The American Museum of Natural History is currently holding an exhibition entitled Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture. The exhibition…
“Potato Biodiversity: Ensuring the Future”, American Museum of Natural History, New York
04/29/2013 Farmers in the Andes use biodiversity as insurance. The potato, a plant native to the area that is now the…
TV documentary Super Foods / TV Globo, Brazil
04/12/2013 TV documentary broadcasted by TV Globo, Brazil Go to the article link TV Globo, Brazil
High-Nutrition and Disease-Resistant Purple and Yellow-Fleshed Potato Clones Obtained
04/24/2013 The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker-Tecnalia, has created four new potato clones which are characterised by their…
Invitan a Chile a alianza para monitoreo de la diversidad genética de las papas nativas
03/15/2013 Líder de Recursos Genéticos del Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), Stef De Haan, se encuentra recorriendo la isla de…
Could the Potato Famine Strike Again?
03/15/2013 “Late blight threatens potato crops world wide because it is both spectacularly devastating and rapid,” said William Fry, plant pathologist…
Peru scientists to boost sweet potato produce
01/18/2013 The state government has joined hands with Peru-based Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), a root crop research centre, to…
Bhutan starts growing potatoes on air
01/09/2013 Considered as one of the major breakthrough in agricultural research and innovation, aeroponics is the latest discovery that could open…
Rising carbon emissions may double sweet potato size
01/12/2013 Rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere caused by human-driven emissions might lead to larger sweet potatoes, a…
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