Among many other things, 2008 is the International Year of the Potato (IYP), proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, recalling resolution 4/2005 of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), adopted on 25 November 2005.
More about that at:
International Year of the Potato, FAO
Potato Science for the Poor - Challenges for the New Millenium, CIP
T'ikapapa, INCOPA, CIP
The INCOPA project, CIP
The Papa Andina Initiavive, CIP
CIP - International Potato Centre
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, UN
This is why the United Nations agricultural agency has organised an international photography contest on the role of the potato in the fight against hunger and poverty to commemorate the International Year dedicated to the tuber.
Despite being called the food of the poor, potato is the planet's fourth largest food source.
The contest, titled Focus on a global food, invites photographers to capture the spirit of the International Year in images which illustrate potato biodiversity, cultivation, processing, trade, marketing, consumption and utilization.
"Photographers who explore the world of the potato will find plenty of subject matter," said NeBambi Lutaladio, the coordinator of the International Year, which aims to raise global awareness of the potato's potential to help countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals, a set of targets for reducing extreme poverty and other global ills by the year 2015.
"It is grown in more than 100 countries, from the Andes and China's Yunnan plateau to the subtropical lowlands of India, on the plains of northern Europe and the steppes of the Ukraine," Lutaladio noted.
Sponsored by Nikon, the contest has separate categories for professional and amateur photographers, and will accept single digital images or 'photo stories' of four to eight related images, in either black-and-white or colour.
The winning photographs will be chosen by a selection panel that includes some of the world's leading professionals in the field of photography. Winners will be awarded cash prizes totaling about USD 11,000 as well as Nikon cameras. The deadline for entries is September 1 2008
credits Deccan Herald
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