The International Potato Center (known by its Spanish acronym CIP ) is a root and tuber research-for-development institution located in Lima, Peru. It is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (or CGIAR ), a group of about 60 donors, including national governments, international organizations and private foundations around the world. Its mission is to work with partners to achieve food security, well-being, and gender equity for poor people in root and tuber farming, and food systems in the developing world.
CIP was founded in 1971 and has offices in 30 developing countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America with the aim to deliver sustainable solutions to the pressing world problems of hunger, poverty, and the degradation of natural resources.
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