Biodiverse and nutritious potato improvement across Peru, Nepal, and Bhutan. Final results report.

Vista sencilla de ítem
dc.creatorInternational Potato Center
dc.date2019-10
dc.date2020-01-22T13:59:18Z
dc.date2020-01-22T13:59:18Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:00:43Z
dc.descriptionThe Biodiverse and Nutritious Potato Improvement across Peru, Nepal, and Bhutan project addressed climate change, food security, nutrition, and the sustainable use of biodiversity in vulnerable mountainous regions. Potato is a major staple across the Peruvian Andes and the high Himalayas-Hindu Kush regions of Nepal and Bhutan. There, climate change has the potential to increase temperatures and evapotranspiration rates, accelerate glacial melting, and diminish water resources. Extreme weather events and shifts in pest and disease pressure are anticipated to negatively affect crop production and food security. To face these harsh and changing conditions, farmers need to be equipped with adapted varieties and the knowledge and capacity to grow them. More than half of the highland population of children in Nepal, Bhutan, and Peru suffer from iron (Fe) deficiency, so there is also the need for more nutritious staple crop varieties in these areas. This highlights the importance of biofortification as a viable food-based strategy for reducing malnutrition levels of affected populations.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/106679
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/152359
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Potato Center
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceInternational Potato Center. 2019. Biodiverse and nutritious potato improvement across Peru, Nepal, and Bhutan. Final results report. 46 p. Lima (Peru). International Potato Center. 46 p.
dc.subjectbiodiversity
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectpotatoes
dc.titleBiodiverse and nutritious potato improvement across Peru, Nepal, and Bhutan. Final results report.
dc.typeReport

Archivos

Colecciones

Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP)