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Biodiversity and Food Security: the Dual Focus of the World Potato Congress

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Inter Press Service News Agency

Publication Date
2018-01-25

Potatoes were first taken out of Peru, where they originated, 458 years ago to feed the world. Half a millennium later, potatoes have spread throughout the planet but there are challenges to preserve the crop’s biodiversity as a source of food security, as well as the rights of the peasants who sustain this legacy for humanity.

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http://www.ipsnews.net/2018/01/biodiversity-food-security-focus-world-potato-congress/