Potato Park

The Potato Park, located in Pisaq in the Sacred Valley of Peru, is one of the few in-situ conservation initiatives in the world where the local people are managing and protecting local genetic resources and traditional knowledge about their health, food, and agriculture. About 600 varieties of nativ...

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Autor principal: Gonsalves, Julian Francis
Formato: Case Study
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/36147
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description The Potato Park, located in Pisaq in the Sacred Valley of Peru, is one of the few in-situ conservation initiatives in the world where the local people are managing and protecting local genetic resources and traditional knowledge about their health, food, and agriculture. About 600 varieties of native potatoes grow in the Park, most of them unique to this habitat. Six Quechua communities live in the Park.
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spelling CGSpace361472024-01-17T12:58:34Z Potato Park Gonsalves, Julian Francis biodiversity conservation community management agriculture potatoes The Potato Park, located in Pisaq in the Sacred Valley of Peru, is one of the few in-situ conservation initiatives in the world where the local people are managing and protecting local genetic resources and traditional knowledge about their health, food, and agriculture. About 600 varieties of native potatoes grow in the Park, most of them unique to this habitat. Six Quechua communities live in the Park. 2013 2014-06-11T15:39:08Z 2014-06-11T15:39:08Z Case Study https://hdl.handle.net/10568/36147 en http://cipotato.org/genebank/potato-park Open Access CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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community management
agriculture
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Gonsalves, Julian Francis
Potato Park
title Potato Park
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title_short Potato Park
title_sort potato park
topic biodiversity conservation
community management
agriculture
potatoes
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/36147
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