Adapting agriculture to climate change: a global initiative to collect, conserve, and use crop wild relatives
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Informa UK Limited
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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.
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wild plants, climate change, food security, plant breeding, biodiversity conservation, plantas silvestres, cambio climático, seguridad alimentaria, fitomejoramiento, conservación de la diversidad biológica