Download or read book The Potato as a Food Crop for the Developing Worldd written by Douglas E. Horton and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 1980 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Potato Production and Consumption in Developing Countries written by Winston B. Charles and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Production potentials in developing countries; Present restraints to improving productivity; Research and development.
Download or read book Potatoes written by Douglas E. Horton and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 1987-04-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes the principles of potato production, distribution, and use and uses findings to propose planning for agricultural research and development for crop improvement programmes.
Download or read book Potatoes written by Douglas E. Horton and published by Intermediate Technology Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes the principles of potato production, distribution, and use and uses findings to propose planning for agricultural research and development for crop improvement programmes.
Download or read book Potatoes for the Developing World written by International Potato Center and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Potato written by John Reader and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The potato--humble, lumpy, bland, familiar--is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it? John Reader's narrative on the role of the potato in world history suggests we may be underestimating this remarkable tuber. From domestication in Peru 8,000 years ago to its status today as the world's fourth largest food crop, the potato has played a starring--or at least supporting--role in many chapters of human history. In this witty and engaging book, Reader opens our eyes to the power of the potato. Whether embraced as the solution to hunger or wielded as a weapon of exploitation, blamed for famine and death or recognized for spurring progress, the potato has often changed the course of human events. Reader focuses on sixteenth-century South America, where the indigenous potato enabled Spanish conquerors to feed thousands of conscripted native people; eighteenth-century Europe, where the nutrition-packed potato brought about a population explosion; and today's global world, where the potato is an essential food source but also the world's most chemically-dependent crop. Where potatoes have been adopted as a staple food, social change has always followed. It may be "just" a humble vegetable, John Reader shows, yet the history of the potato has been anything but dull.
Download or read book Potatoes for the Developing World written by International Potato Center and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first 12 years, Potatoes in the developing world, The International Potato Center, Collaborative research and development strategies, Research program and results, Illustrative studies.
Download or read book Sustainable Potato Production written by NeBambi Lutaladio and published by Food & Agriculture Org. This book was released on 2009 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the International Year of the Potato, celebrated in 2008, FAO and the International Potato Center helped forge partnerships worldwide to address critical aspects of sustainable potato production. This technical guide collates that experience to review technical, socio-economic, policy and institutional factors that currently constrain increased potato production and productivity in tropical and sub-tropical countries. it presents Good Agriculture Practices relevant to potato production, and indicators and recommendations for action in key areas. It outlines a new policy and research agenda for the potato subsector that aims at making a real contribution to the eradication of hunger and poverty.
Download or read book Potatoes for the Developing World written by Centre international de la pomme de terre and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Potato in the Human Diet written by Jennifer A. Woolfe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-03-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reviews the knowledge about the nutritional value of the potato and its role in the nutrition of both children and adults.
Download or read book Biotechnology and the Potato Applications for the Developing world written by M. Ghislain and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Potato Crop written by Hugo Campos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of consumption. Being the only vegetatively propagated species among the world’s main five staple crops creates both issues and opportunities for the potato: on the one hand, this constrains the speed of its geographic expansion and its options for international commercialization and distribution when compared with commodity crops such as maize, wheat or rice. On the other, it provides an effective insulation against speculation and unforeseen spikes in commodity prices, since the potato does not represent a good traded on global markets. These two factors highlight the underappreciated and underrated role of the potato as a dependable nutrition security crop, one that can mitigate turmoil in world food supply and demand and political instability in some developing countries. Increasingly, the global role of the potato has expanded from a profitable crop in developing countries to a crop providing income and nutrition security in developing ones. This book will appeal to academics and students of crop sciences, but also policy makers and other stakeholders involved in the potato and its contribution to humankind’s food security.
Download or read book Potato written by John Reader and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photojournalist Reader (Africa: A Biography of the Continent) traces the humble potato from its roots in the Peruvian Andes to J.R. Simplot's multibillion-dollar-a-year French fry business. Despite its predilection to disease, the potato is a highly adaptable, high-yield, and nutrient-packed foodstuff. While this title focuses primarily on the potato's presence in South America and Europe, it also touches on Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and China-currently the world's largest producer and consumer of potatoes. Verdict: Curiously little attention is paid to the tuber's contributions to the culinary and beverage landscape; the UK subtitle of this work, "The Potato in World History," provides a more accurate description of the focus of the text.
Download or read book Strengthening Potato Value Chains written by Nicolaus Cromme and published by Food & Agriculture Org. This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is based on the proceedings of the Workshop "Strengthening Potato Value Chains in developing countries" held in November 2008. The presentations summarized in this publication are mostly based on experiences made in CFC (Common Fund for Commodities) potato sector development projects. In line with the policy to disseminate the information generated by CFC financed projects as widely as possible, it is our expectation that this publication will be instrumental to make impressive results and experiences of CFC pilot projects in the potato sector available to a wider audience. This document will be most useful and relevant to extension workers, researchers, policy makers and others involved in the development of the potato sector.
Download or read book Potatoes for the Developing World written by Centre International de la Pomme de Terre (Lima). and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book prospects for the patato in the developing world written by and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feeding the People written by Rebecca Earle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today they are the world's fourth most important food. How did this happen?
