OAR@ICRISATAgriculture: Feeding the futureSMcCouchauthorG JBauteauthorJBradeenauthorPBramelauthorP KBrettingauthorEBucklerauthorJ MBurkeauthorDCharestauthorSCloutierauthorGColeauthorHDempewolfauthorMDingkuhnauthorCFeuilletauthorPGeptsauthorDGrattapagliaauthorLGuarinoauthorSJacksonauthorSKnappauthorPLangridgeauthorALawton-RauhauthorQLijuaauthorCLustyauthorTMichaelauthorSMylesauthorKNaitoauthorR LNelsonauthorRPontarolloauthorC MRichardsauthorLRiesebergauthorJRoss-IbarraauthorSRounsleyauthorR SHamiltonauthorUSchurrauthorNSteinauthorNTomookaauthorEvan der KnaapauthorDvan TasselauthorJTollauthorJVallsauthorR KVarshneyauthorJWardauthorRWaughauthorPWenzlauthorDZamirauthorHumanity depends on fewer than a dozen of the approximately 300,000 species of flowering plants for 80% of its caloric intake. And we capitalize on only a fraction of the genetic diversity that resides within each of these species. This is not enough to support our food system in the future. Food availability must double in the next 25 years to keep pace with population and income growth around the world. Already, food-production systems are precarious in the face of intensifying demand, climate change, soil degradation and water and land shortages. Farmers have saved the seeds of hundreds of crop species and hundreds of thousands of ‘primitive’ varieties (local domesticates called landraces), as well as the wild relatives of crop species and modern varieties no longer in use. These are stored in more than 1,700 gene banks worldwide. Maintaining the 11 international gene-bank collections alone costs about US$18 million a year.Food and Nutrition2013Macmillan PublishersArticle

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