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

作者：Dempewolf Hannes^*; Eastwood Ruth J; Guarino Luigi; Khoury Colin K; Mueller Jonas V; Toll Jane

来源：Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2014, 38(4): 369-377.

DOI：10.1080/21683565.2013.870629

• crop wild relatives
• food security
• climate change
• biodiversity conservation
• plant breeding

The main objective of theAdapting 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.

• 出版日期2014-4-21