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Perfecting the Potato, With Help From Peru’s Farmers

Perfecting the Potato, With Help From Peru’s Farmers This World Food Day, the International Potato Center (CIP) announced a new disease-resistant potato developed with the Crop Trust’s support.…

Farmers from Colpar in central Peru share their preferences for potatoes with researchers from the International Potato Center and Grupo Yanapai. Ultimately, the farmers will decide which potato varieties they plant in their fields so researchers are eager to get them involved early on in the selection process. Photo: Crop Trust/Michael Major

Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual (PPPM)

Peruvian-Inspired Fried Yams with Huancaína Sauce

Presented at the Food Forever NYC 2024 by Chef Kristen Little Espinal.

PGR Go

PGR Go Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs OMG! Look, over there! Mewtwo! Quick, let’s catch it Oh, I’m sorry, did I distract you from your own Pokémon Go? Seems like everybody’s…

PGR Go

Luigi Guarino | Director of Science and Programs

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1. The Global Crop Diversity Trust The Crop Trust is an international non-profit organization dedicated to conserving crop diversity and making it available for use globally, forever and for the…

Picking Up Where We Left Off

Picking Up Where We Left Off Marie Haga | Marie's Corner Picking up where we left off: my previous post was published from Lima, Peru, during our last Executive Board meeting. I would like to…

Pigeonpea: Food for Drought

Pigeonpea: Food for Drought Drought is a terrifying prospect for all farmers, and a matter of life and death for many. A nutritious legume that can produce harvests with just 65 cm of rain a year,…

Plan B for Backup: Sweetpotato Seeds Go to Svalbard

Plan B for Backup: Sweetpotato Seeds Go to Svalbard There’s a sweetpotato variety in Papua New Guinea called “Gimane.” But farmers prefer to call it “I don’t care.” Gimane earned this name because…

Plan for Bigger, Better Yams

Plan for Bigger, Better Yams Yields of yams could be boosted—and with them food security—by using their biodiversity more efficiently, according to a strategy for yam conservation facilitated by the…

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The Crop Diversity Digest

From cutting-edge research to work saving seeds in communities, even our small actions can have a big impact on saving crop diversity and putting it to good use. Read the latest news highlighting these efforts and more.