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More with less: Research for intensified food production with scarcer resources and heating climates - How plant breeding helps to feed the world
July 18, 2019
by Martin Kropff, Director-General of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (Cimmyt)
 Technical assistant Tigist Masresra examines breeding trials at the Ambo Research Center in Ethiopia. (Photo: Peter Lowe/CIMMYT)
After declining for nearly a decade to around 770 million, in the last three years the number of hungry people has shot up to more than 850 million. At the same time, erratic weather and crop pests and diseases are ruining harvests, intensifying farmers’ risks, and threatening local and global food security.
In an article for Rural 21, I describe how plant breeding has changed over the last four decades and which methods the international research community is developing to master present and future challenges.
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More news from: CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)
Website: http://www.cimmyt.org Published: July 19, 2019 |
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