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The Potato Crop - Its Agricultural, Nutritional and Social Contribution to Humankind (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Potato Crop - Its Agricultural, Nutritional and Social Contribution to Humankind (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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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.
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