The Potato Crop: Its Agricultural, Nutritional and Social Contribution to Humankind

By H. Campos, O. Ortiz. 2019

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In the coming decades, feeding the expanded global population nutritiously and sustainably will require substantial improvements to the global food system worldwide. The main challenge will be to produce more food with the same or fewer resources. Food security has four dimensions: food availability, food access, food use and quality, and food stability. Among several other food sources, the potato crop is one that can help match all these requirements worldwide due to its highly diverse distribution pattern, and its current cultivation and demand, particularly in developing countries with high levels of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. After an overview of the current situation of global hunger, food security, and agricultural growth, followed by a review of the importance of the potato in the A. Devaux (*) International Potato Center, Quito, Ecuador e-mail: a.devaux@cgiar.org J.-P. Goffart Walloon Agricultural Research Center, Gembloux, Belgium e-mail: j.goffart@cra.wallonie.be A. Petsakos Formerly CIP, Seville, Spain P. Kromann International Potato Center, Nairobi, Kenya e-mail: p.kromann@cgiar.org M. Gatto International Potato Center, Hanoi, Vietnam e-mail: m.gatto@cgiar.org J. Okello International Potato Center, Kampala, Uganda e-mail: j.okello@cgiar.org V. Suarez · G. Hareau International Potato Center, Lima, Peru e-mail: v.suarez@cgiar.org; g.hareau@cgiar.org

Subfields: Food Science

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