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Although the potato is usually thought of as a temperate-zone crop,
potato growing in the tropics and subtropics is spreading rapidly.
In terms of the dollar value of the crop, this edible root now
ranks fourth in the developing world after rice, wheat, and maize.
Nevertheless, policymakers often underrate the importance of the
potato as a source of employment, income, and food or they
underestimate the potential benefits from expanding potato
production and use. The payoff from applied research on potato
cultivation in the tropics and subtropics is high due to the large
body of scientific information from developed countries. This book
summarizes the principles of potato production, distribution, and
use. The essential facts about the potato as a crop, a commodity,
and a food are discussed as well as the issues that scientists and
policymakers should consider in setting priorities for implementing
and assessing the impact of potato research and extension programs.
A major premise of the book is that programs aiming to increase
food supplies and reduce poverty through crop improvement need to
consider not only production technology but also marketing
strategies and consumption patterns. Adequate planning for
agricultural research and development requires an understanding of
how crops are grown, marketed, and used and of what potential
benefits the new technologies can yield. Hence, effective crop
improvement programs need both technical and socioeconomic
expertise. The administrators and others responsible for
implementing these programs must concern themselves with the
policies that impinge on the adoption and consequences of new
production methods so that their countries may reap the full
benefits of an increased and stable food supply.
Although the potato is usually thought of as a temperate-zone crop,
potato growing in the tropics and subtropics is spreading rapidly.
In terms of the dollar value of the crop, this edible root now
ranks fourth in the developing world after rice, wheat, and maize.
Nevertheless, policymakers often underrate the importance of the
potato as a source of employment, income, and food or they
underestimate the potential benefits from expanding potato
production and use. The payoff from applied research on potato
cultivation in the tropics and subtropics is high due to the large
body of scientific information from developed countries. This book
summarizes the principles of potato production, distribution, and
use. The essential facts about the potato as a crop, a commodity,
and a food are discussed as well as the issues that scientists and
policymakers should consider in setting priorities for implementing
and assessing the impact of potato research and extension programs.
A major premise of the book is that programs aiming to increase
food supplies and reduce poverty through crop improvement need to
consider not only production technology but also marketing
strategies and consumption patterns. Adequate planning for
agricultural research and development requires an understanding of
how crops are grown, marketed, and used and of what potential
benefits the new technologies can yield. Hence, effective crop
improvement programs need both technical and socioeconomic
expertise. The administrators and others responsible for
implementing these programs must concern themselves with the
policies that impinge on the adoption and consequences of new
production methods so that their countries may reap the full
benefits of an increased and stable food supply.
From the landing of the Pilgrims through the American Revolution,
American religious thought was strongly influenced by the Puritan
theologian William Ames. Quoted more often in the New World than
either Luther or Calvin, Ames was read in Latin by undergraduates
at Harvard and Yale as part of their basic instruction in divinity.
Both Thomas Hooker and Increase Mather recommended the Marrow of
Theology as the only book beyond the Bible needed to make a student
into a sound theologian. Brief, lucid and comprehensive, the Marrow
presents the substance of the Puritan understanding of God, the
church and the world. Ames shows Puritanism to be an eminently
practical religion which stresses individual experience and
feeling. Connections run from Ames in the eighteenth and Friedrich
Schleiermacher in the nineteenth.
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