Article 67RZA How changing national diets could help fix our global food crisis

How changing national diets could help fix our global food crisis

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Gemma Ware, Daniel Merino
from The World: Latest Stories on (#67RZA)
Story ImageChinese farmers plant the largest amount of potatoes in the world, and the country produces about 20% of the global potato output. But while fresh potatoes are a traditional part of the Chinese national diet, they're viewed as a vegetable rather than as a staple, and China's per capita consumption of potato is below the global average. In 2015, the Chinese government decided to try and change that.
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