LEADER 04336nam 22006975 450 001 9911015872503321 005 20250702130254.0 010 $a9783031928901$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031928895 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-92890-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32189454 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32189454 035 $a(CKB)39567916600041 035 $a(OCoLC)1526860302 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-92890-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939567916600041 100 $a20250702d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCan Potatoes Feed the World? /$fby John E. Bradshaw 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (375 pages) 225 1 $aSustainable Development Goals Series,$x2523-3092 311 08$aPrint version: Bradshaw, John E. Can Potatoes Feed the World? Cham : Springer,c2025 9783031928895 327 $aLet Them Eat Potatoes -- Wild Relatives -- Domestication and Cultivation in South America -- South America to the World -- Late Blight, Crop Failure and Famine -- Seed Certification, True Potato Seed and Disease-Free Planting Material -- Farming, Potential Yields and Increased Production -- Improved Nutritional Value -- Conventional Breeding -- DNA, Gene Editing and Genetic Transformation -- Conclusions. 330 $aThe potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world?s fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 374 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2021, with 52.6% from Asia, 27.0% from Europe, 7.6% from Africa, 6.7% from North America, 5.6% from Latin America and 0.5% from Australia and New Zealand. As a major food crop, the potato has an important role to play in the United Nations ?2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?, which started on 1 January 2016. The second of the seventeen goals (SDG2) is to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. By 2030, the aim of the agenda is to ?ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round?. However, a greater sense of urgency is required to achieve this goal. There is also a need to look beyond 2030 to 2050, when the United Nations predicts a world population of 9.7 billion, compared with 8 billion in 2022, and a warmer climate and loss of biodiversity that will make life more difficult for humankind. The book explores how potatoes can contribute to SDG2 by increasing potato production and improving the nutritional value of potatoes, in particular to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies (?hidden hunger?), having first explained how potatoes became a major food crop and the lessons to be learnt from the crop failures and resulting famine in Ireland over the period 1845 to 1849. The question ?Can potatoes feed the world?? is used to give a novel perspective for a broad audience on the biology and history of the potato crop and its potential to provide food security. It is a scientific and technological question set in a political, economic and societal context. 410 0$aSustainable Development Goals Series,$x2523-3092 606 $aAgriculture 606 $aFood security 606 $aSubsistence farming 606 $aPlant biotechnology 606 $aStress (Physiology) 606 $aPlants 606 $aAgriculture 606 $aFood Security 606 $aSubsistence Agriculture 606 $aPlant Biotechnology 606 $aPlant Stress Responses 615 0$aAgriculture. 615 0$aFood security. 615 0$aSubsistence farming. 615 0$aPlant biotechnology. 615 0$aStress (Physiology) 615 0$aPlants. 615 14$aAgriculture. 615 24$aFood Security. 615 24$aSubsistence Agriculture. 615 24$aPlant Biotechnology. 615 24$aPlant Stress Responses. 676 $a630 700 $aBradshaw$b John E$01062081 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9911015872503321 996 $aCan Potatoes Feed the World$94408386 997 $aUNINA