Combatting drought: a multi-dimensional challenge


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2023-09-01

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Water will be a major limitation to food production in the 21st century, and drought issues already prevail in many parts of the world. Finding solutions to ensure that farmers harvest profitable crops, and secure food supplies for families and feed for animals that will provide for them through to the next season are urgent necessities. The Interdrought community has been addressing this issue for almost 30 years in a series of international conferences, characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach across the domains of molecular biology, physiology, genetics, agronomy, breeding, environmental and social sciences, policy, and systems modeling. This special issue presents papers from the 7th edition of the conference, the first to be held in Africa, that paid special attention to drought in a smallholder context, adding a system' dimension to the crop focus from the previous Interdrought events (Varshney et al., 2018; Hammer et al., 2021).

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74 (16)

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4765 - 4769

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Oxford University Press

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Agriculture risks; climate change; climatic variability; drought adaptive traits; water use efficiency

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09732 - Carminati, Andrea / Carminati, Andrea check_circle

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