The International Potato Center (CIP) is a research facility based in Lima, Peru, that seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security in developing countries through scientific research on potato, sweet potato, other root and tuber crops, and the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.
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KindInternational Agricultural Research Center 1 Connections
Associated With
Potato, Crops The International Potato Center is the CGIAR center whose founding and continuing mandate is potato research.
Sources
1. International Potato Center, Wikipedia
History section, first sentence
The International Potato Center was established in 1971 by decree of the Peruvian government.
Lead paragraph, location clause
is a research facility based in Lima, Peru
Lead paragraph, opening name and abbreviation
The International Potato Center (known as CIP from its Spanish-language name Centro Internacional de la Papa)
lead description (institution-kind)
The International Potato Center (CIP) is a research facility based in Lima, Peru, that seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security in developing countries through scientific research on potato, sweet potato, other root and tuber crops, and the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.
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