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The Peruvian Potato Harvest by John Dyer
The potato is the third most important food crop in the world, after rice and wheat and hundreds of millions of people rely on the biodiversity and success of the harvest. Peru is the birthplace of the potato and traditional farming techniques are preserving the biodiversity of the crop.
During
May 2009 John Dyer traveled to Peru as artist in residence for CIP, to paint at altitudes as high as 4125 meters to record the ethno-botanical story of one of the worlds most important plants.
