As climate change intensifies and extreme weather events become more frequent, the pressure on global food systems escalates. How are advances in synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence being deployed to augment ecosystems for climate resilience and food security?
Takeaway Messages
“Lead researchers from the Global North often do not involve local people in their work in the Global South, and as a result local people do not adopt products of the research
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“We need to diversify our food sources. Humanity relies on just four crops — corn, wheat, rice and soybeans — for about 80 per cent of our food energy. All are under threat from “abiotic” stresses such as extreme weather
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“Micronutrient deficiency is a big problem in the Global South
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“European mistrust of genetically modified crops is denying us the benefits they can bring
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