Publications / Annual Report 2001
Training highlights
The topics covered by CIP’s training curriculum respond directly to the center’s main research areas centered on the production and use of CIP’s mandate crops and the conservation and management of natural resources. There is a growing demand for training on natural resource management in mountain areas and on conservation of root and tuber genetic material.
CIP leads training sessions and workshops, organizes and sponsors international conferences, and develops training materials. The more than 40 main training events conducted across the world in 2001 were attended by participants from 63 countries. These activities focused on research methodologies, tools and techniques for developing-country scientists, and on capacity building for sustainable production, targeted at NGOs, government organizations and development agencies. At CIP headquarters, individual training was provided for participants from 22 countries. CIP also supported training at distant locations by distributing publications and manuals, as welll as through the use of electronic media, including downloads of manuals, articles and reports from CIP’s training website (www.cipotato.org/training), and e-conferences and workshops.
CIP continues to develop its website and interactive CD-ROMs to support training activities organized by CIP headquarters and regional offices, and by CIP-related networks.
Main group training events
| Event (number of participants in parentheses) | External sponsors | Participating countries |
| Course: Methods for detecting bacterial wilt in potatoes and their application to seed programs (17) | Department of Agriculture (Thailand) | Bangladesh, India, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam |
| Workshop: Information systems for genetic resources management (21) | Colombia, Ecuador, India, Peru, Venezuela | |
| Workshop: Planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating potato integrated pest management programs (39) | Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela | |
| 10th International Congress of Andean crops (209) | CONDESAN, FUNDANDES, Universidad Jujuy and Ministerio de la Producción (Argentina) | Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Mexico, Peru |
| Course: Application of statistics to agricultural research (24) | Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión (Peru) | Peru |
| Workshop: In situ conservation of root and tuber crops (16) | SDC | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru |
| Program meeting: Ex situ conservation of Andean root and tuber crops (16) | SDC | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Italy, Peru, |
| Workshop: Complementing genetic resistance for late blight in the Andes (23) | GILB, PAPA ANDINA, PROINPA | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Netherlands, Peru, USA, Venezuela |
| Workshop: NCM-ELISA in potato (12) | India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka | |
| Meeting: Sweetpotato pig-feeding project in Vietnam: Lao Forage Smallholder Project (11) | Vietnam | |
| Workshop: True potato seed (14) | Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Sri Lanka, Vietnam |
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| Courses: Potato seed production, held in Huanuco and Cajamarca, Peru (77) | DFID | Peru |
| Course: Potato seed production at farmers’ field level in Bangladesh (17) | BARI | Bangladesh, India |
| Course: Modeling for crops (DSSAT: decision support
system for agrotechnology transfer, version 3.5) and milk production (13) |
PRONAMACHS | Ecuador, Peru |
| Workshop: Challenges in integrated mountain watershed management (37) | IDRC | Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Peru |
| Workshop: Geographic information systems for phytogenetic resources management (34) | IPGRI | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Italy, Peru |
| Workshop: In situ conservation of agrobiodiversity (41) | SDC, SGRP | Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Chile, Ecuador, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA |
| Workshop: Prevention and control of tuber moth (Tecia solanivora) (29) | ICA, SENASA, SESA | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru |
| Workshop: Economic impact evaluation in agricultural technology (18) | FAO, IFAD, McKnight Foundation, PAPA ANDINA | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Netherlands, Peru, Switzerland, USA |
| Course: Scientific paper and proposal writing and oral scientific presentation (26) | PRAPACE | Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, Zaire |
| Seminar: Biotechnology and development in Andean countries (101) | CamBioTec (Canada), Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Peru), UNIDO | Austria,
Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia,
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Workshop: Progress and prospects of participatory selection of advanced potato clones (12) |
FDR, FOVIDA, INIA (Peru), CODESE | Ecuador, Peru |
Course: Diagnosis of viruses and viroids in the main crops grown in Chanchamayo Valley (20) |
Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión (Peru), SENASA | Peru |
Meeting: Appropriate methodology for urban and peri-urban agricultural research planning (29) |
ACIAR, RUAF | Bangladesh, Belgium, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, UK, USA, Vietnam, Zimbabwe |
2nd Latin-American symposium on roots and tubers (89) |
SLART, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Peru) | Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela |
| Workshop: Crop protection research program (30) | DFID | Bolivia |
| Symposium: Sweetpotato: Food and health for the future (95) | Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Peru), ISHS |
Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malawi, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Korea, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Uruguay, USA |
Workshop: Review and planning of IDM/FFS activities in Nepal (25) |
SDC | Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam |
Workshop: Participatory monitoring and evaluation for integrated crop management (49) |
SDC, UPWARD | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam |
Course: Participatory research and development (38) |
UPWARD | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, Vietnam, Zimbabwe |
| Training for breeders: Marker-assisted breeding (6) | Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda | |
Course: Use of ELISA kits for detection of Ralstonia solanacearum in seed potatoes (13) |
FCRI, NCVESC | Vietnam |
| Workshop: Training of trainers for FFS (89) | EARO, IFAD, SHDI | Ethiopia |
| Course: Participatory research methodologies (27) | McKnight Foundation | Kenya |
Workshops: 1. Potato seed systems. 2. Quality control techniques (120) |
China, North Korea, Vietnam | |
| Workshop: ELISA kits for pathogen diagnosis (30) | China, North Korea, Vietnam | |
| Course: Participatory monitoring and evaluation (37) | UPWARD | Philippines |
| Study tour and workshop: Integrated pest management (13) | PRGA | Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand |
Course: Sustainable agro-enterprise development in a micro-regional context (3) |
UPWARD | Philippines |
Workshop: Review of recent development in sweetpotato utilization research in China (20) |
China |
