UN-backed potato conference

[herosrest]

http://www.un.org/News/dh/photos/03-25-potato.jpg (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=26083&Cr=potato&Cr1=) With cereal prices soaring worldwide, an international conference opening today aims to tap the future food potential of the potato – which already produces more food on less land than maize, wheat or rice – as part of the United Nations International Year of the nutritious root.

The conference, held in Cusco in the potato’s native land of Peru, is bringing together scientists and policy makers to help devise strategies to strengthen the role of what they are calling “the food of the future” in agriculture, the economy and food security, especially in the world’s poorest countries, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Grown in more than 100 countries, the potato is ................

[herosrest]

http://www.un.org/News/dh/photos/03-12-ppotato.jpg (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=25952&Cr=potato&Cr1=year) A world photography contest to highlight the role of the potato, the planet’s fourth largest food source, in the fight against hunger and poverty was announced today by the United Nations agricultural agency, as part of 2008’s International Year dedicated to the tasty tuber.

The contest, entitled Focus on a global food, invites photographers to capture the spirit of the International Year in images that illustrate potato biodiversity, cultivation, processing, trade, marketing, consumption and utilization, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

[werz]

And a mighty food source it is to.

[mireland]

I like french fries. they come from potatoes.

[herosrest]

I love the ones that peel themselves. :x . Long live the spud.

[leprechaun_40]

but potatoe flakes with milk in the morning instead of corn flakes just don't sound right

[werz]

Did you go to the same school as Dan Qayle.