Peru has more than 3,500 <a href=" of potatoes, the largest in the world, and over 700,000 families in 19 producing regions make their living growing this crop. Learn about this Andean tuber —grown in ...

The "seed guardians" of Peru's Potato Park are hoping to change that. Skip to content. ... It is just one of more than 1,300 varieties of potato to be found growing in the mountains of the Andes, ...

It was first cultivated on the Altiplano of modern-day Peru and Bolivia, and Peru still has some 2,800 varieties of potato, more than any other country. Like many people, I took the humble spud for ...

In Highland Peru, a Culture Confronts Blight Nothing is more important than the potato in the highland villages of Peru. But Peru's potato culture faces its biggest threat yet: Global warming has ...

The Union cabinet has approved the establishment of the International Potato Center's South Asia regional research unit in ...

Lima, Jan 18 (EFE).Lima, Jan 18 (EFE). — Researchers have identified and catalogued 130 varieties of native potatoes in the northern province of La Libertad, officials at Peru’s National ...

It is just one of more than 1,300 varieties of potato to be found growing in the mountains of the Andes, somewhere between 3,200m and 5,000m (10,500ft-16,500ft) above sea level.

Peru’s potato output reached 4.5 million tons in 2013, but compared to some 97 million tons in China, Peru isn’t even in the top 10 potato-producing countries. But consumption of native ...

The heterogeneity that’s exciting American farmers and chefs would come as no surprise to Andean farmers, whose ancestors first cultivated the potato 8 millennia ago. In Peru, the range of ...

The "seed guardians" of Peru's Potato Park are hoping to change that. From potatoes to quinoa, many of our favourite foods are at risk from threats like climate change and disease.