International Potato Center

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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. It was established in 1971 by decree of the Peruvian government.[1]

CIP is one of the 15 specialised research centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), an international consortium of agricultural research organizations, having joined in 1972.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 American Society for Horticultural Science.Origin of the International Potato Center.

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Coordinates: 12°04′37″S 76°56′46″W / 12.07694°S 76.94611°W / -12.07694; -76.94611


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