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Agricultural research is notoriously slow. It takes years to bear fruit, and donor-funded agencies donât always last very long. But Bolivia got lucky with one organization that survived.
It started in 1989, when the Swiss funded a project to do potato research, the Potato Research Program (Proinpa), working closely with a core staff of four scientists from the International Potato Center (CIP). Most of the other staff were young Bolivians, including many thesis students.