Conservation & Society, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2018), pp. 30-40 (11 pages) This paper explores people and tuber affective encounters, as they unfold in a biodiversity conservation programme in the Peruvian ...

In Incan mythology, Mama Koka was the god of the coca plant which originally grew from her torn apart body. Today, coca ...

The CIP genebank has the largest in vitro collection of potato types — more than 4,600 native varieties, around 3,000 of which are from Peru — and most of the potato’s wild relatives.

In his letter to Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, CM Yogi Adityanath said the UP government had transferred 10 hectares ...

Peru is home to some outstanding food thanks in no small part to the various culinary influences from around the world that ...

there was the humble cultivation of potatoes in South America—specifically, Peru. Although widely associated with Ireland due ...

11,000-feet above sea level in Peru, Gordon meets a “mad potato scientist,” cooks in a mud oven, and scales a towering cliff face in search of a rare herb. Gordon Ramsay and a local farming ...

It is one of the most consumed foods in Peru, sweet potato. Nutritious and that we have seen in various typical dishes of our gastronomy. Now, if there is mashed potatoes, why not sweet potato?