Combatting drought: a multi-dimensional challenge

Vadez, V and Messina, C D and Carminati, A (2023) Combatting drought: a multi-dimensional challenge. Journal of Experimental Botany, 74 (16). pp. 4765-4769. ISSN 1460-2431

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Abstract

Water will be a major limitation to food production in the 21st century, and drought issues already prevail in many parts of the world. Finding solutions to ensure that farmers harvest profitable crops, and secure food supplies for families and feed for animals that will provide for them through to the next season are urgent necessities. The Interdrought community has been addressing this issue for almost 30 years in a series of international conferences, characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach across the domains of molecular biology, physiology, genetics, agronomy, breeding, environmental and social sciences, policy, and systems modeling. This special issue presents papers from the 7th edition of the conference, the first to be held in Africa, that paid special attention to drought in a smallholder context, adding a ‘system’ dimension to the crop focus from the previous Interdrought events (Varshney et al., 2018; Hammer et al., 2021).

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Global Research Program - Accelerated Crop Improvement
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Agriculture risks, climate change, climatic variability, drought adaptive traits, water use efficiency
Subjects:	Others > Drought Others > Climate Change
Depositing User:	Mr Nagaraju T
Date Deposited:	22 Feb 2024 06:27
Last Modified:	22 Feb 2024 06:31
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12501
Official URL:	https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/74/16/4765/72...
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	UNSPECIFIED
Acknowledgement:	UNSPECIFIED
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