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International Potato Center (CIP)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The International Potato Center (known 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. CIP has recruited an international team of scientists from 25 countries, supported by nationally recruited staff. In its first year of operation, CIP was funded by five donors. Today, the Center’s budget is underwritten by more than 40 donors. CIP is a member of the Alliance of the 15 centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and so receives its principal funding from the 58 governments, private foundations and international and regional organizations that constitute the CGIAR.
Activities
- Research
Coordinated projects
- Enhanced food and income security in SWCA through potato varieties with improve tolerance to abiotic stress
- Genomics and biodiversity: Providing new opportunities for smallholder potato farmers
- Implementing ecological approaches of pest management for enhancing sustainable potato production of resource-poor farmers in mountainous regions in CIP’s target countries of Southwest-Central Asia
- Improving minimum tillage systems for potato production in winter fallow paddy soils in southern China
- Participatory development and testing of strategies to reduce climate vulnerability of poor farm households in East Africa through innovations in potato and sweet potato technologies and enabling policies (CLIMATE CHANGE)
- Predicting climate change induced vulnerability of African agricultural systems to major insect pests through advanced insect phenology modeling, and decision aid development for adaptation planning
- Revisiting sweetpotato weevil sexual pheromone research and development: Scale-up synthesis of improved chemistry, field evaluation and integration into rational mass trapping devices for field application
Involved in research projects
- Characterization and impact of yam bean mosaic virus
- Development of fast screening methods for developing countries to improve quantity and quality of carbohydrates in potato, sweetpotato and yambean
- Plant processes regulating tuber micronutrient concentrations of potato genotypes in different environments
- Valorizing Andean microbial diversity through sustainable intensification of potato-based farming systems (VALORAM)
Contact
International Potato Center
(CIP)
Av. La Molina 1895
Apartado 1558 Lima
Peru
Peru
Phone: +51 1 3496017
Email: cip-webmaster(@)cgiar.org
