“…Furthermore, these efforts products resulted from strategic alliances between private entrepreneurs, community-based producer associations and the associated NGOs, MINAG and its affiliates such as INIA, and CIP. Such efforts had begun a decade earlier with an emphasis on exports (Fano et al 1998) or hybrid potatoes (Bernet et al 2002), but now became focused more on the domestic market, native varieties, and more explicit links to poverty reduction (Ordinola et al 2009). On-going activities encompass five areas simultaneously: promoting greater consumption and use by working with supermarkets, culinary schools, the association of Peruvian chefs, interested entrepreneurs, and the media to raise the profile and educate the public about the culinary, nutritional, and medicinal attributes of native potatoes (Lau 2008;Maximixe 2008); adding value through developing new processed products (Barbier 2009) (Barbier 2009, p. 4).…”