Several research organizations, including the U.N., especifically the Agriculture School in its undergraduate and graduate programs, ICA, the Federation of Potato growers, comercial agrochemical companies, research associations, etc have joined forces around the problems that plague the potato growers in Colombia. Much research has been carried out on this issue, but relatively few has had an impact on the improvement of living conditions for the peasantry involved along the chain of production and marketing processes, due to the lack of a system that coordinates actions regarding the most relevant and urgent problems of the potato guild in the technical and socioeconomic spheres. Nonetheless, the potato growers have undoubtedly benefitted from the achievements of past research, especially by the Colombia n Agricultural Institute (ICA) regarding the development of improved potato varieties, several of them still used for commercial purposes.