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~ All The News That's Fit To Eat ~

What's the buzz this week?  Let's see....

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Last week's World Food News focused on the rising food prices that are becoming a fact of life across the globe.  Here's a glimmer of hope from the News Scotsman site:  "How Potatoes Could Save The World --- As wheat and rice prices surge, the humble potato is being rediscovered as a nutritious crop that could cheaply feed an increasingly hungry world.  Potatoes, which are native to Peru, can be grown at almost any elevation or climate: from the barren, frigid slopes of the Andes to the tropical flatlands of Asia. They require very little water, mature in as little as 50 days and can yield between two and four times more food per hectare than wheat or rice.  The shocks to the food supply are very real and that means we could potentially be moving into a reality where there is not enough food to feed the world,' said Pamela Anderson, director of the International Potato Centre in Lima, a non-profit scientific group.  Like others, she says the potato is part of the solution to the hunger caused by higher food prices, a population that is growing by one billion people each decade, climbing costs for fertiliser and diesel, and more cropland being sown for biofuel production."  Read More...

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