Q: The mission of the International Year of the Potato is to increase awareness of the importance of the potato as a food in developing nations, and promote research and development of potato-based systems as a means of contributing to achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. http://www.potato2008.org/en/aboutiyp/index.html
A: the humble potato has many use's one of which is the immortal vodka and then we had the great potato famine which caused a lot of deaths and mass immigration to which is why we have so many irish in america and elsewhere