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

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dc.creatorDevaux, A.
dc.creatorHareau, Guy
dc.creatorOrdinola, M.
dc.creatorAndrade-Piedra, J.L.
dc.creatorThiele, Graham
dc.date2021-01
dc.date2021-01-21T22:51:05Z
dc.date2021-01-21T22:51:05Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T17:57:30Z
dc.descriptionOnce 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 inputs
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/110932
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/150611
dc.languageen
dc.publisherAgricultural and Applied Economics Association
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceDevaux, 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).
dc.subjectagricultural research
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectmarkets
dc.subjectdevelopment
dc.titleNative Potatoes: From Forgotten Crop to Culinary Boom and Market Innovation
dc.typeJournal Article

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