The triple role of potatoes as a source of cash, food, and employment: Effects on nutritional improvement in Rwanda

Potatoes, of all food crops, had the fastest average annual growth rate of production in Rwanda between 1970 and 1985: 6.8 percent. This increase in potato production was mainly brought about by a rapid expansion of the cultivated and harvested acreage, which grew by 6.7 percent per year during the...

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Main Authors:	Blanken, Jürgen, von Braun, Joachim, de Haen, Hartwig
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	Inglés
Published:	International Food Policy Research Institute 1994
Subjects:	agricultural trade developing countries case studies food supply cash crops food crops nutrition economic situation poverty
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157010