Springer Netherlands
Dordrecht
Springer
11540
10.1007/11540.1871-4528
0014-3065
1871-4528
Potato Research
Journal of the European Association for Potato Research
Potato Res.
Life Sciences
Plant Sciences
Agriculture
Plant Genetics and Genomics
Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
Biomedical and Life Sciences
60
60
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Special Issue: Proceedings of the 20th Triennial Conference of the EAPR, Versailles, July 2017, Potato facing global challenges
17
2018
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31
2018
8
31
2017
12
2017
European Association for Potato Research
2017
9354
10.1007/s11540-018-9354-7
3
Towards Sustainable Potato Production: Partnering to Support Family Farmers in Africa
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2018
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2018
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The Author(s)
2018
Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Hans
Dreyer
Hans.Dreyer@fao.org
0000 0004 1937 0300
grid.420153.1
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
Rome
Italy
Abstract
This paper highlights the current developments towards the sustainable intensification of crop production to combat hunger and malnutrition. It also stresses the specific role the cultivation of potato can play in abolishing hunger and malnutrition. Finally, it describes the role of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in achieving sustainable intensification of potato production.
Keywords
European Commission
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International year of potato
Potato
Save and grow
Seed
Sustainable intensification of crop production systems
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