Potato Production and Consumption in Developing Countries

Potato Production and Consumption in Developing Countries
Author: Winston B. Charles
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 58
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789251030721

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Production potentials in developing countries; Present restraints to improving productivity; Research and development.

Potatoes

Potatoes
Author: Douglas E. Horton
Publisher: International Potato Center
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1987-04-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780813371979

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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.

Potatoes

Potatoes
Author: Douglas E. Horton
Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications
Total Pages: 243
Release: 1987
Genre: Pomme de terre - Industrie - Pays en voie de développement
ISBN: 9780946688098

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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.

Sustainable Potato Production

Sustainable Potato Production
Author: NeBambi Lutaladio
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789251064092

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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.

The Potato in the Human Diet

The Potato in the Human Diet
Author: Jennifer A. Woolfe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1987-03-19
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780521326698

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The book reviews the knowledge about the nutritional value of the potato and its role in the nutrition of both children and adults.

Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century

Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century
Author: Gregory J. Scott
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0896296350

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Synthesizes a significant amount of data and information on roots and tubers in an effort to provide a clearer vision of their past, present, and future roles in the food systems of developing countries. How the production and use of these commodities have changed and will continue to change over time are all the more important to understand because of the contribution they make to the diets and income-generating activities of the rural and urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Provides a fuller understanding of the prospects of roots and tubers for food, feed, and other uses in developing countries.

Potatoes in the 1990s

Potatoes in the 1990s
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Commodities and Trade Division. Basic Foodstuffs Service
Publisher: International Potato Center
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1995
Genre: Futures market
ISBN: 9789252037132

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