This book reports on the Papa Andina Partnership Program, which has been an especially innovative and productive regional initiative, bringing together researchers, small farmers, diverse market actors, and dozens of organizations in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru to spur innovation in public policie
International Potato Center
Acronym:
CIP
Type of Organization:
Agricultural Research Organizations
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The International Potato Center (known as CIP from its Spanish-language name 'Centro Internacional de la Papa') is a research facility based in Lima, Peru, that seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweet potato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.
Areas of activity:
research and development
Focus of Capacity Development:
Individual
Organizational
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Resources from this Organisation
Publication year
2011
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This paper analyzes how the Papa Andina Partnership Program, based at the International Potato Center, functions as an innovation broker in the Andean potato sector.
Publication year
2010
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This paper, part of the Social Sciences Working Paper Series, presents studies undertaken by nine community-based, natural resource management (CBNRM)-oriented organizations in China, Viet Nam, the Philippines and Mongolia.
Publication year
2009
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