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The volume of world fruit production has grown around 3% annually in the last decade. Colombia is the fifth fruit producer in Latin America, with more than 95 types of fruit marketed. In Colombia more than 85% of agricultural production comes from small producers where women play a very important role. Andean fruit chains have common problems of price instability, high marketing intermediation wit...

The international debate focused on the advantages or disadvantages of biofuels motivated the development of this Project considering, in this case, the high productivity by area of bananas and plantains and the particular fact - in the case of export bananas - of a high percentage of rejection that could be used as energy. Five objectives were set within the framework of a public / private allian...

The Project, a consortium led by Bioversity International (Costa Rica) with direct participation of banana producing countries in the region considered four components. They are listed below, including highlights of the main products and results:Improving the productivity of banana farms through a number of technological innovations: Selection, evaluation and dissemination of superior and elite pl...

The guava is a species of tropical origin that develops in various agroecosystems of the Colombian-Venezuelan Andes from sea level to 1,800 meters above sea level. Currently, a large proportion of the fruit is produced wild in silvo-pastoral systems, through the work of small producers who contribute more than 80% of the family workforce where women play a leading role. In Colombia and Venezuela t...

The project structered eight sub-projects with the aim of developing sweetpotato products for human and animal consumption, both directly and those resulting from the processing of roots and foliage. The production and consumption of sweetpotato paste in baby food was evaluated. Productive root varieties were selected and the foliage yield of different clones and the effect of their consumption by...

The project aimed at improving the competitiveness and sustainability of potato production in the participating countries by evaluating and selecting germplasm resistant to different bacterial, viral and fungal diseases and suitable for industrial use and processing of value-added products. Currently, farmers produce varieties that do not fully meet the needs of processing plants and are highly su...

The objective was to contribute to the development of wheat varieties (Triticum aestivum) of industrial quality to increase the competitiveness of the crop in the Southern Cone and improve the availability of food in the Region. This depended on the determination of molecular factors associated with gluten quality and rheological and processing factors determining industrial quality. Germplasm sel...