Description du projet
Une feuille de route pour assurer la pérennité des plantes cultivées
Produire des récoltes plus abondantes pour nourrir une population croissante peut paraître simple, mais c’est loin d’être le cas. La production agricole mondiale est mise à rude épreuve pour produire suffisamment de biomasse végétale permettant d’assurer la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle, ainsi que pour répondre aux exigences de la bioéconomie de demain et d’une utilisation compétitive des terres. Pour atteindre ces objectifs, il y a lieu de doubler la productivité agricole mondiale. Le plus grand défi consiste à garantir la qualité nutritionnelle des futures cultures. Le projet CropBooster-P, financé par l’UE, s’attachera à refaçonner le concept de plantes cultivées «pérennes», en faisant un usage efficace des ressources rares (minéraux et eau) et en préservant la biodiversité de la Terre (avec une résilience élevée aux conditions climatiques défavorables). Enfin, le projet élaborera une feuille de route visant à doubler durablement le rendement des cultures européennes à l’horizon 2050.
Objectif
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
Champ scientifique
- 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
Mots‑clés
Programme(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
Régime de financement
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinateur
6708 PB Wageningen
Pays-Bas