Springer Netherlands
Dordrecht
Springer
11540
10.1007/11540.1871-4528
0014-3065
1871-4528
Potato Research
Journal of the European Association for Potato Research
Potato Res.
Life Sciences
Plant Sciences
Agriculture
Plant Genetics and Genomics
Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
Biomedical and Life Sciences
60
60
5
3
4
Special Issue: Proceedings of the 20th Triennial Conference of the EAPR, Versailles, July 2017, Potato facing global challenges
17
2018
8
31
2018
8
31
2017
12
2017
European Association for Potato Research
2017
9389
10.1007/s11540-018-9389-9
15
10.1007/s11540-018-9403-2
Breeding Differently: Participatory Selection and Scaling Up Innovations in Colombia
361
381
2018
5
31
2017
9
9
2018
5
30
2018
7
27
2018
10
19
The original version of this article unfortunately requires correction with respect to the order of authors.
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Global Affairs Canada
The Author(s)
2018
Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Teresa
Mosquera Vásquez
tmosquerav@unal.edu.co
Sara
Del
Castillo
David
Cuéllar
Gálvez
Luis
Ernesto
Rodríguez
0000 0001 0286 3748
grid.10689.36
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Bogotá
Colombia
0000 0001 0286 3748
grid.10689.36
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá, Faculty of Medicine
Bogotá
Colombia
Abstract
Global challenges like sustainable development, climate change, malnutrition and gender inequality can be tackled from an agricultural perspective. Micronutrient deficiency is a major problem for the health and food security of the population. In Colombia, iron deficiencies affect 32% of the children under the age of five; and 43% of the Colombian population have zinc and vitamin A deficiencies. We designed and implemented a research-for-development programme that links agriculture and nutrition through a two-stage project. In the first stage, we selected three new yellow potato cultivars with better nutritional contents, higher yield and better resistance to late blight than the traditional yellow cultivars. We characterized the Colombian germplasm, Solanum tuberosum Group Phureja, for its nutritional attributes. During this stage, studies of the social and nutritional status of the communities were also conducted. In the second stage, we focused on scaling up new potato cultivars to reach potato producers and consumers by promoting the production and marketing of good quality seed potatoes, by establishing four Rural Entrepreneurs Nuclei. The programme promotes gender equity, good dietary habits, the consumption of more nutritious potatoes and empowers local leadership to strengthen governance. Field work was conducted in southern and central regions of Colombia by employing social strategies such as the Family Farming Community Schools. In 50% of the cultivated area, we are replacing the originally used traditional yellow potatoes by the new, more nutritious, potatoes to reach 6 million consumers. A good quality seed system for small-scale potato growers has been implemented. These achievements have been reached through a comprehensive approach in a period of two years.
Keywords
High-quality potato seeds
Innovating in sustainable and nutrition-sensitive agriculture
Participatory research
Social innovations
Abbreviations
AETs
Agronomic evaluation trials
FFCS
Family farming community schools
FFS
Farmer field schools
FSN
Food security and nutrition
Leadership Schools SFSN
Leadership schools in sovereignty and food security and nutrition
REN
Rural entrepreneurs nuclei
A correction to this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11540-018-9403-2.
ftp_PUB_18-10-20_05-11-14.zip11540-2018-Article-9389.pdfPDF1.4