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On October 18, world food day, the United Nations officially launched the International Year of the Potato 2008. Although there is a strong focus on the role of potato as a staple food for developing countries, I feel this is also a unique opportunity for the potato industry to stress the nutritional value and the versatility of the potato in all its forms. McCain Foods Limited must agree, since the company announced its sponsorship of the United Nations International year of the Potato at the official launch in New York.

If the number of conferences that will be organized next year is any indication of the success  of the International Year of the potato, the IYP2008 could become a quite successful. We will update them on a regular basis in our Events section.

Speaking of events: three weeks ago the PotatoPro newsletter focused on organic potato and potato products. I wanted to let you know that October 30 a (free) webinar takes place entitled "The Keys to Organic Food Certification and Production". In general, not specific on potato.

I also associate the International Year of the Potato with the origin of the potato, the Peruvian highlands. The Peruvian native potato recently received positive attention when the project Tika'papa "the potato goldmine" was awarded one of the 12 spots in the finals of the BBC competition World Challenge. The winning project receives a contribution of USD 20.000. In case you did not yet vote, you can still vote here (not anymore. T'ikapapa won!) The winning project will be announced on December 10, 2007.

Enjoy reading,

Paul van Eijck 

Featured Event

The international year of the potato 2008 seems to trigger an impressive line-up of  conferences and exhibitions related to the potato. We have updated our lists of events . Let us know if you have more details on any particular conference in the event list, or a conference that we have not yet listed. Many conference programs are still sketchy at best. As more details become available on the program of these conferences we will highlight conferences and exhibitions in this section that are of particular interest from a processing point of view.

Featured Market Research

Global Foodservice

Datamonitor's Global Foodservice industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the foodservice industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, demographic information, and descriptions of the leading companies.
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Featured Book

2007 World Catalogue of Potato Varieties

The first edition of the Catalogue was published in 1999. The 2007 edition of the Catalogue is not only a reference manual to researchers and breeders at universities, colleges and institutes, but is a unique publication with practical value to commercial potato farmers, retailers, processors, packers, private breeders of potato seed, and others in the industry. Information about each variety is presented in table format complimented by the use of a colour scheme that enables the reader to get a quick overview.

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Featured Article

If you want to stay up to date on what is happening in the potato industry in China, I can recommend a recent GAIN publication Potato and Frozen Potato Products in China 2007. Also topics like the potato starch industry and the Foodservice Industry are briefly addressed.  Recently also an overview of the Russian Potato market was published. These GAIN reports are written by a department of the United States Department of Agricultural (USDA). Consequently these reports focus on the trade relation of these countries with the US.

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