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Centro Internacional de la Papa

Also known as: CIP, International Potato Center

International agricultural research center founded 1971, headquartered in Lima — the world's principal genetic-resources institution for potato (*Solanum tuberosum* spp.), sweet potato (*Ipomoea batatas*), and Andean roots-and-tubers (oca, ulluco, mashua, achira, arracacha, yacon). The CIP genebank holds ~7,000 potato accessions, ~7,000 sweet-potato accessions, and ~2,000 Andean-roots-and-tubers accessions — the largest such collection in the world. Member of CGIAR (the global agricultural-research consortium) and partner with national agricultural-research systems across ~50 countries. Active partner with [[parque-de-la-papa]] for in-situ conservation and cultivar repatriation work; principal global source for breeding stock used in disease-resistance, climate-adaptation, and yield-improvement programs.

Why this entry

CIP is the world’s principal genetic-resources backstop for the planet’s third- and fourth-largest food crops (potato and [[sweet-potato|sweet potato]] by tonnage). [[0mn1one|The platform]]‘s mission of worldwide abundance runs through these crops. The institution is foundational global infrastructure.

What it does

Three principal functions:

  1. Genebank custodianship. ~7,000 potato accessions, ~7,000 sweet-potato accessions, ~2,000 Andean roots-and-tubers accessions — preserved as both seed and tissue-culture, with regular regeneration. The genebank is open-access for non-commercial research under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) framework — a Standard Material Transfer Agreement (SMTA) governs distribution.
  2. [[plant-breeding|Plant breeding]]. CIP-bred varieties have been the source of much of the late-20th-century yield improvement in potato and [[sweet-potato|sweet potato]] in developing countries — orange-fleshed sweet potato (Vitamin-A biofortified) for Sub-Saharan Africa, late-blight-resistant potato for Andean and East African farmers, climate-resilient varieties for emerging-stress regions.
  3. In-situ conservation partnership. The [[parque-de-la-papa|Parque de la Papa]] partnership is the most visible; CIP also partners with Indigenous and farmer-led conservation programs across the broader Andean region and increasingly internationally.

What this means for the platform

  1. Genetic conservation is worldwide-abundance infrastructure. When climate change, disease, or political disruption hits a regional cropping system, the genebank is what allows recovery. The CIP collection is irreplaceable.
  2. CIP is also a model. International agricultural research centers under CGIAR — IRRI (rice, Philippines), CIMMYT (maize and wheat, Mexico), ICRISAT (millet and [[sorghum|sorghum]], India), Bioversity International (general), Africa Rice (Ivory Coast), ICARDA (dryland-zone, originally Syria, now Lebanon and Morocco) — together preserve the [[genetic-diversity|genetic diversity]] for nearly every globally-important crop. The platform should know the network exists.
  3. The relationship between ex-situ and in-situ conservation matters. CIP’s genebank is the backup; [[parque-de-la-papa|Parque de la Papa]] is the living system. Both are necessary; neither alone is sufficient. The 2015 repatriation work shows what the right relationship between the two looks like.

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  • Contains: [[parque-de-la-papa]]
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