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This book features a comprehensive foresight assessment, exploring
the pressures - threats as well as opportunities - on the global
agriculture & food systems between now and 2050. The
overarching aim is to help readers understand the context, by
analyzing global trends and anticipating change for better planning
and constructing pathways from the present to the future by
focusing on the right questions and problems. The book
contextualizes the role of international agricultural research in
addressing the complex challenges posed by UN 2030 Agenda and
beyond, and identifies the decisions that scientific leaders,
donors and policy makers need to take today, and in the years
ahead, to ensure that a global population rising to nine billion or
more combined with rising incomes and changing diets can be fed
sustainably and equitably, in the face of the growing climate
threats.
The success of the Green Revolution in closing the gap between
world population and food production was principally achieved by
increasing crop productivity in favorable areas. However, this
success has been limited in the rainfed systems, which are prone to
frequent droughts and other abiotic stresses. Worldwide, drought
affects approximately 23 million hectares of rainfed rice.
Varieties combining improved drought resistance with high yield
under favorable conditions and quality characteristics preferred by
farmers are the most promising and deliverable technologies for
alleviating poverty in communities dependent on rainfed rice
production. This book describes some of the recent advances in the
genetics and physiology of drought resistant rice varieties and the
integration of highly efficient breeding and genetic analysis
techniques with functional genomics. Harnessing recent scientific
breakthroughs, Drought Frontiers Project (http:
//seeds.irri.org/drought) is launched as a major assault on the
problem of improving drought resistance in rice. Featuring
contributions from leading international experts, case studies are
discussed to present perspectives on the various multidisciplinary
facets of drought resistance in rice, along with the involvement of
natural resource management practices and the socioeconomic
implications that entail. Readers will be better informed of this
highly relevant and complex topic of improving rice drought
resistance in a global environment characterized by increased water
scarcity.
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