Descripción del proyecto
Una hoja de ruta para unas plantas de cultivo «preparadas para el futuro»
Incrementar los cultivos para alimentar a una población creciente puede parecer sencillo, pero no lo es. La producción mundial de cultivos está bajo la presión de tener que generar suficiente biomasa vegetal para lograr la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, además de satisfacer las demandas de una futura bioeconomía y un uso del suelo competitivo. Se tiene que doblar la productividad de los cultivos mundiales. El mayor reto es garantizar la calidad nutritiva de los futuros cultivos. El equipo del proyecto CropBooster-P, financiado con fondos europeos, explorará el rediseño de unas plantas de cultivo «preparadas para el futuro», que hagan un uso eficiente de los escasos recursos (minerales y agua) y preserven la biodiversidad de la Tierra (con una elevada resiliencia a las condiciones climáticas adversas). Al final, elaborará una hoja de ruta con el fin de doblar de forma sostenible el rendimiento de los cultivos de Europa para 2050.
Objetivo
Increasing global crop productivity will be central in meeting some of the greatest challenges facing mankind: How will we sustainably feed 9.7 billion people by 2050, while also achieving the transition from a fossil economy towards a bio-economy in order to mitigate, or possibly reverse, the effects of global climate change? How can we assure and maintain the nutritional quality of our future crops? Additionally, how can we provide new crop cultivars adapted to the constraints imposed across vast areas by climate change? A doubling of global crop productivity is required to produce enough plant biomass to achieve food and nutrition security, as well as to meet the demands of a future bioeconomy. To ensure both Food and Nutrition Security this increase in crop production must be achieved without any loss of nutritional quality. In addition, future agriculture will require crops that combine sustainability - they must efficiently using scarce resources like minerals and water and preserving Earth’s biodiversity - with a high resilience to adverse climate conditions.
In order to meet these challenging demands, our current crop plants will have to be re-designed and a “future proof” profiling is urgently needed.
With a multitude of possible crops and genetic changes, combined with multiple environmental changes, policy and societal challenges, progress could be mired in a seemingly insurmountable complexity. CropBooster-P will address this by identifying priorities and opportunities to adapting and boosting productivity to the environmental and societal changes. While engaging with the public from the beginning, and by mobilizing European plant sciences, our objective is to produce a White Paper – a Roadmap – that will describe the pathway to sustainably doubling Europe’s crop yields by 2050 and preparing these crops for the needs and the future climate of Europe
Ámbito científico
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsbioeconomy
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
Palabras clave
Programa(s)
- H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.2.1.1. - Increasing production efficiency and coping with climate change, while ensuring sustainability and resilience
- H2020-EU.3.2.2.2. - Healthy and safe foods and diets for all
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SFS-2018-1
Régimen de financiación
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinador
6708 PB Wageningen
Países Bajos