AGRICULTURE

Resources- Food

Stabilise  crop production

Agriculture faces enormous challenges over the next decades to maintain and increase crop production to match the demands of growing populations living under changing climates. Efforts are focused on identifying crop cultivars that are yield stable and stress tolerant.

Genomics

Date palms sequencing yields insights into diversification

Date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) are the most significant perennial crop in arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa.  A new study presents a comprehensive catalogue of approximately seven million single nucleotide polymorphisms in date palms based on whole genome re-sequencing of a collection of 62 cultivars.

Environment

Climate Food Security Index

Find out how climate action could shape future vulnerability to food insecurity in your country by using a new interactive website produced by the Met Office UK / World Food programme.  It allows readers to explore how different scenarios of global greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to climate change could change the geography of food insecurity in developing and least-developed countries.
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Genebank

The fertile crescent region is the geographic origin for grass families exploited in agriculture and crop production for over 10000 years.
The search continues.
ICARDA's Genetic Resources Section (GRS) actively seeks  seed collection, acquisition, ex situ conservation, regeneration, characterization and distribution of genetic resources of ICARDA’s mandate crops: barley, wheat, food legumes (lentil, chickpea and faba bean) and feed legumes (vetch and grass pea).
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