Lessons from Peru: How food firms joined forces with 'potato guardians' to protect biodiversity

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Agri-food firms' investment in Indigenous farmers is boosting the resilience of an important cash crop, writes the International Potato Center's Stef de Haan

Dotted across the country's highland regions, the lives of Peruvian smallholder potato farmers would, at first glance, seem remote from the concerns of multinational agri-food businesses. Yet, with...

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