International Year of the Potato Peru. Several functions and events were held throughout the world, including those by the United Nations Association in Canada, honouring Wallace McCain, co-founder of McCain Foods Limited. International Year of the Potato The year 2008 was declared the International Year of the Potato by the United Nations, noting that the potato is a staple food in the diet of the world’s population, and affirming the need to focus world attention on the role that the potato can play in providing food security and eradicating poverty. Food and Agriculture Organization was invited to facilitate its implementation. The corresponding resolution adopted on
Seventieth anniversary of the United Nations 14 June, though it comes on June 5, as "International Bicycle Tour" having more than 10000 participants who rode their bicycles together to mark the event. Over 2000 Trees Planted on the Slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania as an event to mark environment protection as the prime motto. United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) invited names from university students across the world and almost 70 student got prizes for winning. On 29 June, an exhibition to mark the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, was organised by Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts, United Nations Foundation and the Department of Public