Over the past 18 years, CIP has been developing sweetpotato as a potential remedial crop for rural farmers who are experiencing exacerbated levels of malnutrition and poverty as a result of increased demands on the output per unit of land for food and …
In January 2013, CIP hosted a formative meeting focused on establishing a global network to support the enhancement of the nutritional quality of potato and sweetpotato as well as other root and tuber crops.
In the face of a rather fragile agriculture, affected by climate variability, people of the Altiplano developed an approach similar to the strategy of modern investors in the stock market, who diversify their investment portfolios to deal with the risk…
