Potatoes are the fifth largest primary agriculture crop in Canada.
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Potatoes are one of Canada’s largest commercial crops. Artificial intelligence technologies can be used to maximize crop yields.
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Potatoes are profitable and in demand. But wet weather and hard-to-control diseases have caused havoc for our growers.
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As with so many staples and foods in the past two years – lettuce, milk and eggs to name a few – the problem is a temporary imbalance between supply and demand. Here’s what’s happening with potatoes.
China began promoting potatoes as a staple in 2015 in an effort to combat food insecurity.
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Why countries need to shift what their citizens eat, and what the optimum diet for our planet might be. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Potatoes grown in the Kibirichia area of Mount Kenya.
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Potato productivity in Kenya is declining, this is partly due to potato cyst nematodes - a microscopic type of roundworm that feeds on potato roots.
A one-litre carton contains the equivalent of one small potato.
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Potato milk may not be the most nutritious plant-based alternative – but it still has some benefits.
Kenya imports potatoes from various countries for high-end consumers and market segments.
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Kenya should develop market standards that guide the quality of potatoes sold in local markets.
Potatoes have been given a hard time.
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Potatoes contain many vitamins and nutrients which are essential for good health.
Harvest from a confined field trial in Uganda shows a significantly higher yield (right) for the 3R Victoria potato, and without the use of fungicide.
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Could bioengineered potatoes play a crucial role in food security?
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The ex-combatants’ food memories show how they continue trying to make sense of both their past and present experiences of violence.
Actor Roger Moore poses with a martini after learning he would play the British secret agent James Bond.
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To celebrate National Vodka Day, a food historian debunks myths and highlights unknown facts about one of America’s favorite liquors.
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Sales may be down, but their nutritional value remains high.
The summer of 1976 was a scorcher.
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The heatwave is unlikely to cause the price hikes of 1976 for a number of reasons.
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An audio version of an in depth article about the 18th century Enlightenment thinkers who promoted the potato as a way to build a healthy and productive society.
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) used in medical devices and for growing plants, like potatoes seen here, are used by NASA to grow plants in space. The U.S. space agency plans to grow food on future spacecraft and on other planets as a food supplement for astronauts.
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LED lights can actually improve upon the sun and help grow plants in space. A Canadian team of researchers is helping to refine and perfect LED technology.
Peruvian potatoes and black corn.
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Over half the calories humans eat today come from corn, wheat and rice. Raising a greater diversity of types of crops and animals (agrobiodiversity) makes diets healthier and farming more resilient.
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When Enlightenment thinkers were looking for a way to build a healthy and productive society, they hit upon the tuber.
Into the danger zone.
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Everything you need to know about the humble spud.
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Potatoes are more nutrient-dense than many other staple foods in South Africa including maize meal, rice, bread and pasta.
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Andrew Taylor has vowed to eat just spuds for a year. What impact will it have on his health?