Research News

The September edition of the New Agriculturist (2008-05) reports on interesting initiatives to promote potato as an alternative staple in an economic climate where food prices continue to affect the poor, with articles on:

• Ever-present danger - late blight
• Climate change - can potato stand the heat?
• Rooting for tubers
• Going native: the sweet success of Bolivia's bitter potato
• Popular revolution in potato production in North Korea
• Protecting potato diversity in Peru
• Cashing in on chips

At the 2008 World Water Week held in Stockholm in August, key players from the fields of health, water and agriculture offered New Agriculturist their points of view on wastewater irrigation.

Other items in this issue:

• Developments
  -Speciality coffee in Rwanda
  -Sharing knowledge - tell us a story
  -Domino effect - from land rights to human rights
  -Africa's concerns over biosafety
• Book reviews
• News briefs
• My perspective - Bakary Kante of UNEP
• Country profile - Senegal
• In pictures - Planting for profit in Afghanistan