Bio-innovations genome-edited crops for climate-smart food systems

dc.creatorFalck-Zepeda, José B.
dc.creatorBiermayr Jenzano, Patricia
dc.creatorRoca, Maria Mercedes
dc.creatorFuentes-Campos, Ediner
dc.creatorKikulwe, Enoch Mutebi
dc.date2022-05-12
dc.date2022-07-28T12:12:10Z
dc.date2022-07-28T12:12:10Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:04:43Z
dc.descriptionAs growing populations, changing diets, and climate change affect growing conditions for crops, our agriculture and food systems must increase production and productivity to ensure access to healthy and diverse diets for all. The expanding demands on agriculture and food systems must be met without increasing pressure on the environment, and while accomplishing other development goals and objectives. Addressing this complex problem requires the identification of game-changing interventions that can drive sustainable, equitable agriculture for food system transformation. “Bio-innovations” will be one key set of interventions. Bio-innovations encompass biotechnology-based tools and product innovations, as well as innovations in their governance, regulation, and social and business contexts. They hold potential to contribute to food system transformation by accelerating productivity growth and reducing agriculture’s environmental footprint, as well as contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/120347
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/93850
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294257
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294271
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceFalck-Zepeda, José Benjamin; Biermayr-Jenzano, Patricia; Roca, Maria Mercedes; Fuentes-Campos, Ediner; and Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi. 2022. Bio-innovations: Genome-edited crops for climate-smart food systems. In 2022 Global Food Policy Report: Climate Change and Food Systems. Chapter 10, Pp. 90-99. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294257_10.
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectfood systems
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectinnovation
dc.subjectgene editing
dc.subjectcrops
dc.subjectclimate-smart agriculture
dc.subjectcambio climático
dc.subjectsistemas alimentarios
dc.subjectnutrición
dc.subjectmitigation
dc.subjectfood systems transformation
dc.titleBio-innovations genome-edited crops for climate-smart food systems
dc.typeBook Chapter

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