Examples of crop adaptation to climate change

Søren Thorndal Jørgensen

ISBN 10: 3659229865 / ISBN 13: 9783659229862

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Sep 2012, 2012

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Neuware -Food production will have to increase in the next 50 years to meet the demand from a growing population and changed food habits, as e.g. for higher meat consumption. The increased production will have to be based on rain-fed agriculture or more effective irrigation strategies, and will have to be mainly in the tropics, since further enhancement in productivity in the western agriculture is a slow process, if possible at all. Climate change will become a major threat to this demand/supply equation, since many new problems will hamper the productivity gain that otherwise could have been achieved. Simple movement of genetic material or management techniques (North ¿ South or South ¿ North) to overcome future climate change, are doubtful, since photoperiodic control of most tropical species are very strong. Establishing more local breeding programs in a wider number of tropical species than currently, is highly relevant for continuously adapting to changing climate. Apart from crop breeding, many new research areas within plant physiology needs further work.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Examples of crop adaptation to climate change
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Sep 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659229865
• ISBN 13: 9783659229862
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 5D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 5 millimeters depth
• Weight: 119 grams

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Synopsis

Food production will have to increase in the next 50 years to meet the demand from a growing population and changed food habits, as e.g. for higher meat consumption. The increased production will have to be based on rain-fed agriculture or more effective irrigation strategies, and will have to be mainly in the tropics, since further enhancement in productivity in the western agriculture is a slow process, if possible at all. Climate change will become a major threat to this demand/supply equation, since many new problems will hamper the productivity gain that otherwise could have been achieved. Simple movement of genetic material or management techniques (North → South or South → North) to overcome future climate change, are doubtful, since photoperiodic control of most tropical species are very strong. Establishing more local breeding programs in a wider number of tropical species than currently, is highly relevant for continuously adapting to changing climate. Apart from crop breeding, many new research areas within plant physiology needs further work.

About the Author

Søren Thorndal Jørgensen PhD, is educated agronomist from 1996 and holds a PhD from University of Copenhagen from 2011. Has previously worked at ICARDA in Syria with barley breeding and managed a small Danish field trial company Ytteborg for 5 years. After this he was in the Danish Plant Directorate working on seed laboratories and variety testing.