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

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Centeren
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.donorSwiss Agency for Development and Cooperationen
cg.coverage.countryPeru
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PE
cg.coverage.regionSouth America
cg.creator.identifierAndré Devaux: 0000-0002-2340-197X
cg.creator.identifierGuy Gaston HAREAU ALGORTA: 0000-0002-8458-9259
cg.creator.identifierMiguel Ordinola: 0000-0002-4789-6276
cg.creator.identifierJorge Andrade-Piedra: 0000-0001-7617-0506
cg.creator.identifierGraham Thiele: 0000-0002-3739-0431
cg.identifier.urlhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/308578en
cg.issn0886-5558en
cg.issue4en
cg.journalChoicesen
cg.subject.cipNUTRITIONen
cg.subject.cipBIODIVERSITY FOR THE FUTUREen
cg.subject.cipIMPACT ASSESSMENTen
cg.subject.cipINCLUSIVE GROWTHen
cg.subject.cipPOTATO AGRI-FOOD SYSTEMSen
cg.subject.cipPOTATOESen
cg.volume35en
dc.contributor.authorDevaux, A.en
dc.contributor.authorHareau, Guyen
dc.contributor.authorOrdinola, M.en
dc.contributor.authorAndrade-Piedra, J.L.en
dc.contributor.authorThiele, Grahamen
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-21T22:51:05Zen
dc.date.available2021-01-21T22:51:05Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/110932
dc.titleNative Potatoes: From Forgotten Crop to Culinary Boom and Market Innovationen
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
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen
dcterms.audienceDonorsen
dcterms.audienceExtensionen
dcterms.audienceFarmersen
dcterms.audienceNGOsen
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen
dcterms.audienceGeneral Publicen
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
dcterms.extent7 p.en
dcterms.issued2021-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherAgricultural & Applied Economics Associationen
dcterms.subjectagricultural researchen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectmarketsen
dcterms.subjectdevelopmenten
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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