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Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP)
“The International Potato Center (known
worldwide by its Spanish acronym, CIP) seeks to
reduce poverty and achieve food security on a
sustained basis in developing countries through
scientific research and related activities on
potato, sweetpotato, other root and tuber crops, and
on the improved management of natural resources in
the Andes and other mountain areas.”
“CIP headquarters are in La Molina, outside of
Lima, Peru’s capital, in an irrigated coastal
valley. CIP also has experimental stations in
Huancayo in the high Andes and in San Ramón on the
eastern, rainforest-covered slopes, taking advantage
of Peru’s varied geography and climate. The Center
has another high Andes experiment station in Quito,
Ecuador, and a worldwide network of regional offices
and collaborators.”
It is one of the 15 international agricultural
research centres supported by the Consultative Group
on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
Mission
“The International
Potato Center (CIP) seeks to reduce poverty and
achieve food security on a sustained basis in
developing countries through scientific research and
related activities on potato, sweetpotato, and other
root and tuber crops and on the improved management
of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain
areas.”
Go to
CIP’s website.
Genetic resource activities
“Since CIP’s founding 30 years ago, the conservation
and effective use of root and tuber crop genetic
resources (biodiversity) has been at the core of its
continuum of research activities. CIP’s dedication
to this part of its mission was reflected last year
with the inauguration of its new state-of-the-art
biodiversity complex.
In close collaboration with its national partners,
CIP scientists have been assembling the world’s
largest reservoir of root and tuber crop genetic
material. The CIP genebank currently holds in trust
for the world community approximately 2,000 wild and
4,000 cultivated potato samples, more than 6,000 of
sweetpotato and over 1,000 of other Andean root and
tuber crops. These crops are particularly important
in impoverished and marginal environments where many
of the world’s poorest people live. CIP has
distributed these germplasm holdings to users
worldwide, with developing countries receiving most
samples.”
Find out more about CIP’s project on
conserving biodiversity.
Inter-Centre Working Group on Genetic Resources
Each of the CGIAR Centres has a representative on
the Inter-Centre Working Group on Genetic Resources,
SGRP’s steering committee. The Committee sets the
strategy and priorities for SGRP and meets annually
to review its workplan.
To find out who is CIP’s representative, please go
to our
Contacts page.
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