Potato derivatives

Potato derivatives

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Descripción

Potatoes are a key crop across diverse farming systems globally, ranging from smallholders producing diverse heirloom varieties by hand in the Andes, to vast commercial, mechanized farms in different continents. As the third most available food crop globally, potatoes contribute to the food security and nutrition as well as and livelihoods and employment of people in rural and urban areas the world over. The International Day of Potato underscores the importance of the crop to combating hunger and poverty and addressing environmental threats to agrifood systems. It recognizes the roles of small-scale family farmers, a significant proportion of whom are women, in safeguarding the wide spectrum of the crop’s diversity, while celebrating the cultural and culinary dimensions of the crop’s cultivation and consumption. This infographic provides relevant derivatives from potato with a focus on food uses and non food uses.