Moving to adapted crop varieties that are more resilient to climate change is feasible, says Chris Brown, general manager for environmental sustainability, at agri-business Olam International.
It is also known to have adapted crop-sprayers to spread biological agents, and to have experimented not just with bacteria but with viruses, such as camel pox.
It is this multiplicity of minutely adapted crops and the domestication of the alpaca and the llama that made the mountains habitable to millions (the bulk of the population in the Central Andes has always lived between 8,000 and 13,000 feet).
Researchers must exploit opportunities to increase the productivity of rice in seasons when rice is the best adapted crop (the rainy season) and provide management options for additional crops or the replacement of rice by crops such as maize or vegetables in other seasons.
*Conventionally bred, locally adapted crops, used in combination with environmentally sustainable farming practices, offer a safer, cheaper and more efficient way to ensure global food security than genetic modification.
PGR of crop wild relatives or locally adapted crop landraces contain a rich repertoire of alleles that have been lost by selective processes that generated our today's elite cultivars.
The species tolerates drought and has been considered as a well adapted crop facing climate change which could position it as one of the best alternatives for providing food for the rapidly growing world population in future [ 16- 18].
It's the promise of adapting crops to get essential vitamins to millions of the poorest children that sold GM to him.
The alternative to 'horrendously closed code' is than to be able to adapt crops to viruses, particular soil types, specific climatic conditions and so forth.
For example, adapting crop rotations to include more perennial crops, thereby avoiding use of bare and fallow land, reduces greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by accumulating soil carbon stocks [3].
