Dr Dunnet has gathered some further thoughts and papers and kindly allowed Caithness.org to offer this freely on the web site.

Many of you may not have thought that there might be another way of feeding the world's burgeoning population other than by grain based foods but Dr Dunnet offers another direction that may indeed prove very useful to many countries.  Dr Dunnet's contribution to world food production is well known in academic circles and more  about his work can be seen on the web site of Caithness Potato Breeders Ltd

A SCOTTISH POTATO BREEDER’S HARVEST
PART TWO
I could easily sit back and let my varieties speak for me but I decided not to do that because every good brand, be it Scotch seed potatoes or Jack Dunnett’s varieties, needs to have a history or tell a story.

Eight years ago I published “A Scottish Potato Breeder’s Harvest” in hard covers and this is my supplement. The page numbers follow on and the format is the same, a series of papers that I have been stimulated to write for various reasons over the years, or texts of talks I have been asked to give. Now, however, what I shall call Part One retrospectively and its supplement Part Two can be brought together on line and downloaded from Caithness.org which is about life and activities in my native county of Caithness.

The following supplementary papers are not peer reviewed scientific papers intended for scientists. They continue my running commentary on potato breeding for a wider readership of people interested in fresh potatoes, which will be most of us to some extent, either as producers or consumers, or both. There will be some repetition of important points.

Pages What to Expect from Potato Breeding....................................................Page  87

A new paper, concerned with the need to double the world’s food supply by 2050, the date set by most of the world’s leading politicians. Puts forward the idea that massive yields of fresh potatoes could be grown in semi-desert areas and converted into  chuño by modernising an ancient freeze/drying process discovered by hunter/gatherers about seven thousand years ago and still used by traditional Andean farmers today.

The Moment when the Penny Drops................................................................Page  92

Published in 2006 in the Journal of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society, who had kindly awarded me a gold medal for potato breeding. Maintains that blight resistance genes advantageous in the wild have never given lasting protection under conditions of clonal monoculture and probably never will, so the best course is to keep potatoes properly sprayed – a disillusioned and slightly quirky article.

A Potato Breeder’s Response to Unjustified Criticism..........................................Page  95

Stimulated by remarks in Joanna Blythman’s book “ SHOPPED. The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets” as published in 2004. Never seriously intended for publication except by myself.

Potato Breeding and the Global Market.............................................................Page  99

Text of a lecture to the British Potato Council’s Conference at Harrogate in 2005. Marshalling my better known varieties in the shape of a football team allowed me to use some familiar sporting metaphors.

The Youth Team............................................................................................Page 104
A new paper about my newer varieties, those that might eventually take over from some of
my veterans.

Conclusion....................................................................................................Page  112
Returns to the subject of chuño and the world’s food supply.

Picture Gallery. A project for the future.