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The project has acted as a means of bringing together different actors interested in the rescue, promotion and incorporation of native Andean potatoes for new uses and markets. It was executed in a consortium by PROINPA (Bolivia); CORPOICA (Colombia); the National Roots Program and INIAP (Ecuador); INIA and Practical Solutions (ITDG) (Peru); and INIA (Venezuela). The objective was to improve the q...

Economic impact of these processes The LESIS Project (Legumes for Sustainable Systems) was set to improve the productivity and sustainability of livestock systems of Uruguay and Chile (Bolivia also joined, after the project’s inception). The goal was to expand and enhance the genetic resources of forage legumes of the Lotus and Trifolium genera, and their associated rhizobia, aimed at their impr...

Despite its social and nutritional importance and research and development efforts, rice in Central America shows low productivity and can hardly compete with yields achieved in the Southern Cone or North America. If we add phytosanitary threats to the above, the situation becomes more difficult.In this framework, the mite-fungus-bacteria complex (CAHB, its acronym in Spanish) became a threat to t...

The indiscriminate use of insecticides and fungicides in rice and beans in the Andean zone has become a serious problem that affects the environment, the health of producers and consumers. Its excessive use has caused resistance to fungicides and insecticides to the main pathogens and insects that affect these crops. Most of the pesticides used are category I (extremely dangerous) and are applied ...

The project considered technological options to improve economic, social, and environmental indicators on farms with coffee and livestock systems, as well as to strengthen local capacities for planning and designing better systems and linking them to markets.  The livelihoods analysis was approached in a comprehensive way by means of classifying 322 farms to describe human, natural, social, phys...