What are the advantages for Peru as the host of CIPs headquarters?
According to recent impact studies, the Peruvian economy is boosted by about US$20 million, due to the presence of CIP headquarters. In addition to economic gain, Peru benefits from CIP’s research output on several Andean root and tuber crops (ARTCs). These crops (including yacon) are held in trust in CIP’s genebank and have great potential as alternative sources of food and as raw material for industry processing. CIP helps Peruvian farmers find new markets for ARTCs to help fight hunger and poverty, and gives a high priority to training, in order to build up and enhance national capabilities and to facilitate the transfer of new technologies to farmers. Since 1973, CIP has trained more than 300 undergraduate and more than 200 graduate students. CIP has also provided more than 4000 specialized courses, more than 200 individualized training sessions, and about 200 professional internships.
