{"id":2346,"date":"2019-08-15T17:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T09:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2019-08-15T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T09:28:49","slug":"new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>New technologies and policies are needed to meet the skyrocketing demand for wheat, which is expected to increase 50 to 60 percent by 2050.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That was the key takeaway from the recent International Wheat Congress (IWC) in Saskatoon, Canada, which attracted over 900 delegates from 50 different countries, including researchers from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT),theInternational Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), the International Wheat Yield Partnership (IWYP), Cornell University\u2019s Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat project (DGGW) and the University of Saskatchewan, among others.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some 2.5 billion consumers in 89 countries already depend on wheat as a staple food, and demand is expected to rise significantly as the world\u2019s population tops 9 billion or more and 6.3 billion city dwellers buy convenience food. With approximately 15 percent of the planet\u2019s arable land planted with wheat, this ancient grain is the world\u2019s most widely grown staple food crop and is thus critical to global food security. However, wheat faces threats from climate change, variable weather, disease, predators and many other challenges.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe fact is that between now and 2030, we have 10 growing cycles left to grow enough food to feed 1 billion more people and between 2030 and 2050 we will have only 20 cycles left to grow enough food for another billion more people,\u201d said Dr. Joyce Irene Boye, director-general of agriculture and agri-food for Canada\u2019s Science and Technology Branch \u2013 Prairie Region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe time to work together to ensure we have the supply of food for the globe is now,\u201d she added, urging convention delegates to figure out how to produce enough wheat so the growing population of the world has enough to eat.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Modern wheat breeding practices aimed at high-input farming systems have the potential to promote genetic gains and yield stability across a wide range of environments and management conditions, benefitting not only large-scale and high input farmers, but also resource-poor, smallholder farmers who do not use large amounts of fertilizer, fungicide and other inputs, scientists noted.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Advanced plant breeding research can more quickly provide farmers with wheat varieties improved for yield, disease resistance, and heat and drought tolerance, as well as better nutritional and processing quality.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>What Africa can learn from Canada<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Canada, one of the world\u2019s largest producers of wheat, is a model for successfully employing research and innovation in agriculture. But food insecurity remains a major challenge in developing nations, especially in Africa, despite major social and economic advances. Wheat-based foods are the major staple in Africa. The population rise has further driven a rapid rise in demand for wheat, but production falls short and consuming countries draw on foreign reserves to import grain annually.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bekele Abeyo, senior scientist at CIMMYT, told the Alliance for Science that although one crop is not the solution for every country, there is great potential for wheat growing regions in Africa to sustainably improve or scale up their production by embracing research and innovative technological solutions that can improve wheat.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWhat Africa can learn from Canada and other wheat producing nations like the USA is how to use existing technologies so we can produce it locally and we can invest our resources to develop research to produce more technology so we can use in Africa to make it self-sufficient,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The wheat breeder and plant pathologist urged wheat-growing countries in Africa to invest in research and development to achieve self-sufficiency.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe best thing for Africa is to know the resources they have and to invest in research to develop technologies that can change their livelihoods by boosting production and productivity of crops they grow,\u201d Abeyo said. \u201cThis directly means that as I am spending a lot of hard currency to import, if they invest a small amount on research and use a small package of technology, they can boost production and become self-sufficient.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>The need for enabling policies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, 2014 World Food Prize winner, highlighted the importance of governments enacting enabling laws that allow for the deployment of innovative technologies that can help improve production and make Africa food secured.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The agriculturist explained that researchers cannot use novel approaches, such as gene editing, to improve the genetic gains and breeding efficiency if there are no enabling laws backing such technologies. \u201cThe policy must be revised in such a way that it is supported locally,\u201d he said. \u201cIt must be done properly.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rajaram maintained that Africa has vast tracks of land, but still needs proper policies in order to use technology that can benefit researchers, farmers and the society at large.\u00a0 Africa is completely ready to utilize emerging technologies to feed its growing population, without which it will not be able to produce enough food for the people, he noted.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tl clearfix mt10\">\n<h4 class=\"p-source c-999 cb pt5\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:\u00a0<a class=\"c-orange fs16\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.agropages.com\/Media\/MediaIndex-325.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cornell University<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New technologies and policies are needed to meet the skyrocketing demand for wheat, which is expected to increase 50 to 60 percent by 2050. That was the key takeaway from the recent International Wheat Congress (IWC) in Saskatoon, Canada, which attracted over 900 delegates from 50 different countries, including researchers from the International Maize and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn - agrinoon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn - agrinoon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New technologies and policies are needed to meet the skyrocketing demand for wheat, which is expected to increase 50 to 60 percent by 2050. That was the key takeaway from the recent International Wheat Congress (IWC) in Saskatoon, Canada, which attracted over 900 delegates from 50 different countries, including researchers from the International Maize and&hellip; Continue reading New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"agrinoon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-15T09:28:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/\",\"name\":\"New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn - agrinoon\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-15T09:28:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-15T09:28:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/#\/schema\/person\/535254a24a4e1135afec5bcc244a5a8c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/\",\"name\":\"agrinoon\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/#\/schema\/person\/535254a24a4e1135afec5bcc244a5a8c\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/727d38bbce271274ba21a10196f68d0e97dc7f36482cf2ddd1a056ba4ac20386?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/727d38bbce271274ba21a10196f68d0e97dc7f36482cf2ddd1a056ba4ac20386?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/s691948366.onlinehome.us\/demo\/agrinoon\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn - agrinoon","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn - agrinoon","og_description":"New technologies and policies are needed to meet the skyrocketing demand for wheat, which is expected to increase 50 to 60 percent by 2050. That was the key takeaway from the recent International Wheat Congress (IWC) in Saskatoon, Canada, which attracted over 900 delegates from 50 different countries, including researchers from the International Maize and&hellip; Continue reading New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn","og_url":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/","og_site_name":"agrinoon","article_published_time":"2019-08-15T09:28:49+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/","url":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/","name":"New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn - agrinoon","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-08-15T09:28:49+00:00","dateModified":"2019-08-15T09:28:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/#\/schema\/person\/535254a24a4e1135afec5bcc244a5a8c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/08\/15\/new-breeding-technologies-needed-meet-skyrocketing-demand-wheat-scientists-warn\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/","name":"agrinoon","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/#\/schema\/person\/535254a24a4e1135afec5bcc244a5a8c","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/727d38bbce271274ba21a10196f68d0e97dc7f36482cf2ddd1a056ba4ac20386?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/727d38bbce271274ba21a10196f68d0e97dc7f36482cf2ddd1a056ba4ac20386?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/s691948366.onlinehome.us\/demo\/agrinoon"],"url":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}