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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@cgiar.org
creators_name: McCouch, S
creators_name: Baute, G J
creators_name: Bradeen, J
creators_name: Bramel, P
creators_name: Bretting, P K
creators_name: Buckler, E
creators_name: Burke, J M
creators_name: Charest, D
creators_name: Cloutier, S
creators_name: Cole, G
creators_name: Dempewolf, H
creators_name: Dingkuhn, M
creators_name: Feuillet, C
creators_name: Gepts, P
creators_name: Grattapaglia, D
creators_name: Guarino, L
creators_name: Jackson, S
creators_name: Knapp, S
creators_name: Langridge, P
creators_name: Lawton-Rauh, A
creators_name: Lijua, Q
creators_name: Lusty, C
creators_name: Michael, T
creators_name: Myles, S
creators_name: Naito, K
creators_name: Nelson, R L
creators_name: Pontarollo, R
creators_name: Richards, C M
creators_name: Rieseberg, L
creators_name: Ross-Ibarra, J
creators_name: Rounsley, S
creators_name: Hamilton, R S
creators_name: Schurr, U
creators_name: Stein, N
creators_name: Tomooka, N
creators_name: van der Knaap, E
creators_name: van Tassel, D
creators_name: Toll, J
creators_name: Valls, J
creators_name: Varshney, R K
creators_name: Ward, J
creators_name: Waugh, R
creators_name: Wenzl, P
creators_name: Zamir, D
icrisatcreators_name: Varshney, R K
affiliation: Cornell University(Ithaca)
affiliation: University of British Columbia
affiliation: James Bradeen University of Minnesota(St. Paul)
affiliation: Global Crop Diversity Trust(Bonn)
affiliation: USDA(Beltsville)
affiliation: The University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
affiliation: Genome British Columbia(Vancouver)
affiliation: AAFC(Winnipeg)
affiliation: Glenn Cole Pioneer(Woodland)
affiliation: CIRAD(Montpeillar)
affiliation: INRA(Clermont-Ferrand)
affiliation: University of California(Davis)
affiliation: EMBRAPA
affiliation: Sandra Knapp Natural History Museum(London)
affiliation: ACPFG(Adelaide)
affiliation: Rauh Clemson University(Clemson)
affiliation: Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(Beijing)
affiliation: Monsanto Company(Creve Coeur Missouri)
affiliation: Dalhousie University(Halifax)
affiliation: Tomooka National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences(Tsukuba)
affiliation: University of Illinois(Urbana)
affiliation: Reno Pontarollo Genome Prairie(Saskatoon)
affiliation: Colorado State University(Fort Collins)
affiliation: DowAgro(Indianapolis)
affiliation: IRRI(Los Baños)
affiliation: Ulrich Schurr Forschungszentrum Jülich(Jülich)
affiliation: IPK(Gatersleben)
affiliation: Ohio State University(Wooste,)
affiliation: Land Institute(Salina)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
affiliation: University of Jerusalem(Rehovot)
country: USA
country: Canada
country: Germany
country: Philippines
country: France
country: Brazil
country: UK
country: Australia
country: Japan
title: Agriculture: Feeding the future
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.17
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Agriculture, Feeding, Food Security
abstract: Humanity 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.
date: 2013
date_type: published
publication: Nature
volume: 24
number: 499
publisher: Macmillan Publishers
pagerange: 23-24
id_number: 10.1038/499023a
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1476-4687
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/499023a
related_url_url: http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?q=allintitle%3A+%22Feeding+the+future%22&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5
related_url_type: pub
citation:   McCouch, S and Baute, G J and Bradeen, J and Bramel, P and Bretting, P K and Buckler, E and Burke, J M and Charest, D and Cloutier, S and Cole, G and Dempewolf, H and Dingkuhn, M and Feuillet, C and Gepts, P and Grattapaglia, D and Guarino, L and Jackson, S and Knapp, S and Langridge, P and Lawton-Rauh, A and Lijua, Q and Lusty, C and Michael, T and Myles, S and Naito, K and Nelson, R L and Pontarollo, R and Richards, C M and Rieseberg, L and Ross-Ibarra, J and Rounsley, S and Hamilton, R S and Schurr, U and Stein, N and Tomooka, N and van der Knaap, E and van Tassel, D and Toll, J and Valls, J and Varshney, R K and Ward, J and Waugh, R and Wenzl, P and Zamir, D  (2013) Agriculture: Feeding the future.  Nature, 24 (499).  pp. 23-24.  ISSN 1476-4687     
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