A million hectares of potatoes in the developing world
Potato varieties bred with CIP materials or obtained with help from the center now occupy over 1 million hectares of land worldwide. This statistic comes from a survey of 23 national potato-breeding programs in developing countries in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, which together account for more than 80% of developing country potato area and production.
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An exhibition to celebrate the potato in its day, May 30
For the first time the public of Lima can appreciate the exhibit “The Odyssey of the Potato” that toured Europe during the International Year of the Potato in 2008. The exhibition illustrates the process of potato domestication that the ancient inhabitants of the Andes accomplished, and the evolution of this tuber into a food that contributes to the food security and economic growth of the world.
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New World Catalogue of Potato Varieties
The new 2009/10 edition of the "World Catalogue of Potato Varieties" is available. The Catalogue now contains more than 4500 potato varieties that are cultivated in over 100 countries world wide. The Catalogue also contains descriptions of about 1900 wild potato accesions from the wild potato collection maintained in the CIP genebank, in trust for the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
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