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Photographers who know their King Edward from their Maris Piper are being urged to take part in a competition to find the best images of the humble potato.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-1309035,00.html
The International Year of Potato aims at raising the profile of this globally important food crop and commodity, giving emphasis to its biological and nutritional attributes, and thus promoting its production, processing, consumption, marketing and trade. Celebration of IYP 2008 is an opportunity to make a valid and effective contribution towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals:
Potatoes feed the hungryThe potato should be a major component in strategies aimed at providing nutritious food for the poor and hungry. It is ideally suited to places where land is limited and labour is abundant, conditions that characterize much of the developing world. The potato produces more nutritious food more quickly, on less land, and in harsher climates than any other major crop - up to 85 percent of the plant is edible human food, compared to around 50% in cereals.
To alleviate hunger and poverty around the world, FAO and UN specialized agencies said food and agricultural production should be increased by 60 per cent over the current food availability, and potato plays an important role.