Climate Change Might Be the Greatest Threat to Potato Cultivation in 8,000 Years

01/30/2015

Peru’s darling crop, the potato, has defied the capricious climate of the Andes for millennia, morphing into 2,500 varieties.
But after 8,000 years of domestication, the tuber faces a grave threat to its continued South American habitat, with growers running out of mountain terrain within which to plant.

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