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The events of climate change will lead to new or more severe abiotic and biotic stresses challenges in potato production systems globally, which are likely to affect the crops entire value chain. An understanding of the effect climate change will have on potato value chains will allow mitigation steps be undertaken from the perspectives of breeding agronomy and socioeconomic adaptations.

CRRIsP aims to add value on the state of the art knowledge by:

• Analysing trade-offs and synergies of developed innovations and their applicability to different farming, market and food systems; 
• Deploying innovative tools and solutions in variety development, seed systems, agronomy, post-harvest loss reduction alongside mutual capacity building;
• Engagement in knowledge exchange and dissemination on production, storage, market and value chain related topics;
• Develop and disseminate training and communication material for different audiences from lab to fork.

Overall, CRRIsP envisions that the use of this innovative approach and new knowledge products helps to accelerate the innovation process that is needed to achieve sustainable local and regional, environmentally friendly, economically viable and socially inclusive potato system approaches that significantly contribute towards the overarching goal of achieving resilient food security under changing climates.