"This book is an authoritative publication that provides the latest research on potato production in the future climate change scenario. Featuring exhaustive coverage on a variety of topics associated with food fundamentals such as availability, stability, utilization, and...

We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...

Crop genetic diversity underpins long-term world food security, allowing agriculture to adapt to changing insect pests, plant diseases, and environmental conditions. This crucial form of biodiversity is cultivated by small farmers, especially in regions where crops were domesticated or have a...