Science Council Brief Nro 5: CIP’s Contribution to the Genetic Improvement of Potato

This brief takes stock of CIP’s contribution to varietal change in potatoes in developing countries. The evaluation is based on information collected from two sets of surveys of national research programs covering 30 developing countries between 1993 and 1999¹. The countries sampled account for about 85 per cent of developing-country potato production, in terms of both area and volume.

The full version of the study on which this brief is based is: Walker T.S., Bi Y.P., Li J.H., Guar P.C., and Grande E. 2003. Potato genetic improvement in developing countries and CIP’s role in varietal change. In: Crop Variety Improvement and its Effect on Productivity: The impact of international agricultural research (Evenson R.E. and Gollin D., Eds). CAB Publishing: Wallingford, UK and Cambridge, MA, USA. The study is available at http://impact.cgiar.org/