To Counter Problems of Food Aid, Try Spuds

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/world/26spuds.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=elisabeth%20rosenthal%20potato&st=cse&oref=slogin

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Subject: To Counter Problems of Food Aid, Try Spuds
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    How many calories can an acre of land produce in a year growing potatoes? Maize? Wheat? Rice? Will aid groups have to develop faster transportation and distribution networks for a perishable commodity if it replaces dry goods? Will hungry farmers be able to replace traditional grain culture on their lands with potatoes? This article filled up much a a page of the Times, but it's all fluff and it doesn't satisfy.

Barry Levine