Native Potatoes: From Forgotten Crop to Culinary Boom and Market Innovation

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Centeren_US
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananasen_US
cg.contributor.donorSwiss Agency for Development and Cooperationen_US
cg.coverage.countryPeruen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PEen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouth Americaen_US
cg.creator.identifierAndré Devaux: 0000-0002-2340-197Xen_US
cg.creator.identifierGuy Gaston HAREAU ALGORTA: 0000-0002-8458-9259en_US
cg.creator.identifierMiguel Ordinola: 0000-0002-4789-6276en_US
cg.creator.identifierJorge Andrade-Piedra: 0000-0001-7617-0506en_US
cg.creator.identifierGraham Thiele: 0000-0002-3739-0431en_US
cg.identifier.urlhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/308578en_US
cg.issn0886-5558en_US
cg.issue4en_US
cg.journalChoicesen_US
cg.subject.cipNUTRITIONen_US
cg.subject.cipBIODIVERSITY FOR THE FUTUREen_US
cg.subject.cipIMPACT ASSESSMENTen_US
cg.subject.cipINCLUSIVE GROWTHen_US
cg.subject.cipPOTATO AGRI-FOOD SYSTEMSen_US
cg.subject.cipPOTATOESen_US
cg.volume35en_US
dc.contributor.authorDevaux, A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHareau, Guyen_US
dc.contributor.authorOrdinola, M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAndrade-Piedra, J.L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorThiele, Grahamen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-21T22:51:05Zen_US
dc.date.available2021-01-21T22:51:05Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/110932en_US
dc.titleNative Potatoes: From Forgotten Crop to Culinary Boom and Market Innovationen_US
dcterms.abstractOnce neglected by urban consumers, Andean native potatoes are now essential ingredients for some of the most sophisticated gastronomy of the world. From colored chips to delicacy vegetables and even liquors, new products are making their way into high-income market niches. At the same time, native potatoes continue to fulfill their basic role of providing food security for many rural households in the Andes, who were responsible for domesticating them. Today, these families continue to plant native potatoes in diverse varietal mixtures which could contribute to longer term adaptation to climate change. The International Potato Center (CIP) found an opportunity for repositioning potato as an added-value cash crop. CIP has accomplished this by expanding its use for processing and by encouraging sales of improved and native potatoes to satisfy preferences of consumers in emerging markets in small and large cities and export markets. In this article, we examine how potatoes—particularly native potatoes—can improve livelihoods among poor farmers in Peru, highlighting the role of biodiversity as a resource to link small producers with markets. We offer examples with an approach to foster pro-poor innovation in value chains, the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA), which was originally developed to increase the competitiveness of small-scale potato producers by taking advantage of the diversity of native potatoes. These native potato varieties have been successfully marketed to consumers who link them with Peru’s cultural heritage and who wish to support traditional, small-scale farming with relatively low external inputsen_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen_US
dcterms.audienceCGIARen_US
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen_US
dcterms.audienceDonorsen_US
dcterms.audienceExtensionen_US
dcterms.audienceFarmersen_US
dcterms.audienceNGOsen_US
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen_US
dcterms.audienceGeneral Publicen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDevaux, A., Hareau, G., Ordinola, M., Andrade-Piedra, J., Thiele, G. (2021). Native Potatoes: From Forgotten Crop to Culinary Boom and Market Innovation. Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 35(4).en_US
dcterms.extent7 p.en_US
dcterms.issued2021-01en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherAgricultural & Applied Economics Associationen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultural researchen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.subjectmarketsen_US
dcterms.subjectdevelopmenten_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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