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Crops and Climate Proofing - Trude Schwarzacher and Pat Heslop Harrison for IAEA
Superdomestication and feed-forward plant breeding: Genomic and molecular cytogenetic approaches Pat Heslop-Harrison and Trude Schwarzacher, University of Leicester, UK phh4(a)le.ac.uk and ts32(a)le.ac.uk http://www.molcyt.com Today I am presenting some of our work contributing and relating to the IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Programme on Climate Proofing of Food Crops: Genetic Improvement for Adaptation to High Temperatures in Drought Prone Areas and Beyond (www.webcitation.org ) We all know why we are here and having these important discussions, and climate change and its mitigation are critical: this was the top story on the IAEA homepage last month, reporting on a talk by Modibo Traore: he noted how we have the combination of climate change damaging soil and threatening agriculture as we practice it now, along with unprecedented numbers of people to feed. Some of the challenges are summed up in this photograph from south of Addis Abbaba in the the Rift Valley of Ethiopia. Drought and unpredictable climate prevent crops timely establishment of crops, and the consequences are exacerbated by overgrazing and collection of trees for fuelwood, themselves consequences of population growth, and all leading to loss of soil - seen in the dust storm on the left. In the background though, you can see the product of one of the huge natural resources of Ethiopia: carbon-free electricity from hydroelectric and geothermal sources, rather than nuclear, and certainly part of the solution to ...From:Pat Heslop-HarrisonViews:3 0ratingsTime:18:20More inEducation

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