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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dempewolf, Hannes
• Eastwood, Ruth J
• Guarino, Luigi
• Khoury, Colin K
• Müller, Jonas V
• Toll, Jane

Titel

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Global Initiative to Collect, Conserve, and Use Crop Wild Relatives

Ist Teil von

• Agroecology and sustainable food systems, 2014, Vol.38 (4), p.369-377

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The main objective of the“Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change” project is to collect and protect the genetic diversity of a portfolio of plants with the characteristics required for adapting the world's most important food crops to climate change. The initiative also aims to make available this diversity in a form that plant breeders can readily use to produce varieties adapted to the new climatic conditions that farmers, particularly in the developing world, are already encountering. Such adaptation is a key component of securing the world's future food production. This paper serves to inform interested researchers of this important initiative and encourage collaboration under its umbrella.