Publications /  Annual Report 1998

CIP's portfolio of projects provides a constraints-driven research agenda that is implemented through regional strategies in all relevant production areas of the world.

In 1998, CIP completed the first year of project activities under its new project-based management system. The 17 projects that encompass all of CIP’s program activities emerged from the results of an intense and in-depth priority setting exercise to guide the Center’s research program. They address the most pressing global constraints in improving sustainable livelihoods through potato and sweetpotato production and utilization, managing natural resources in mountain ecosystems, and preserving and using underutilized Andean root and tuber crops. The projects form the basis of CIP’s CGIAR approved Medium-Term Plan for the next three years.

This portfolio of projects provides a constraints-driven research agenda that is implemented through regional strategies in all relevant production areas of the world. Regional implementation involves close partnership with national programs, universities, NGOs (local, regional, and international), farmers and farm organizations, and the private sector. Close association with advanced research institutions is also an important component, and a necessity to bring the most advanced tools to bear on the constraints.

Project Leaders 1998