Contents
Focus on: Potato
- 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
Points of view
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
- Eat your heart out - why the food business is bad for the planet and your health
- Banana - the fate of the fruit that changed the world
- The new peasantries - struggles for autonomy and sustainability in an era of empire and globalization
- Fuelling exclusion? The biofuels boom and poor people's access to land
- African agriculture and the World Bank - development or impoverishment?
- A world without bees
- Determinants and implications of the growing scale of livestock farms in four fast-growing developing countries
- The expected benefits of trade liberalization for world income and development: opening the 'black box' of global trade modelling
News brief
- Traditional African 'superfood' gets thumbs-up
- Relief for Haiti's farmers
- African Swine Fever on the move
- Oz drought is worst on record...
- ...and famine threatens millions in East Africa
- DFID and USAID boost Afghan seed sector
- Future bright for Romanian rice
- Kenya's livestock hit by devastating disease
- India's farm loan waiver proving costly
- Islanders unite to fight climate 'havoc'
- UN's fertiliser fears
- Monsoon rains bring widespread flooding
My perspective
Country profile
In pictures
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September 2008
September 2008
