Harbinson Jeremy, Parry Martin A J, Davies Jess, Rolland Norbert, Loreto Francesco, Wilhelm Ralf, Metzlaff Karin, Klein Lankhorst René
Laboratory of Biophysics, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, 6700 HB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK.
Biology (Basel). 2021 Jul 20;10(7):690. doi: 10.3390/biology10070690.
The realization of the full objectives of international policies targeting global food security and climate change mitigation, including the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement COP21 and the European Green Deal, requires that we (i) sustainably increase the yield, nutritional quality and biodiversity of major crop species, (ii) select climate-ready crops that are adapted to future weather dynamic and (iii) increase the resource use efficiency of crops for sustainably preserving natural resources. Ultimately, the grand challenge to be met by agriculture is to sustainably provide access to sufficient, nutritious and diverse food to a worldwide growing population, and to support the circular bio-based economy. Future-proofing our crops is an urgent issue and a challenging goal, involving a diversity of crop species in differing agricultural regimes and under multiple environmental drivers, providing versatile crop-breeding solutions within wider socio-economic-ecological systems. This goal can only be realized by a large-scale, international research cooperation. We call for international action and propose a pan-European research initiative, the CropBooster Program, to mobilize the European plant research community and interconnect it with the interdisciplinary expertise necessary to face the challenge.
要实现旨在全球粮食安全和缓解气候变化的国际政策的全部目标，包括联合国可持续发展目标、《巴黎气候协定》第21次缔约方会议以及欧洲绿色协议，就要求我们：（i）可持续地提高主要作物品种的产量、营养品质和生物多样性；（ii）选择适应未来气候动态的抗气候作物；（iii）提高作物的资源利用效率，以可持续地保护自然资源。归根结底，农业要应对的重大挑战是，为全球不断增长的人口可持续地提供充足、营养丰富且多样的食物，并支持循环生物基经济。使我们的作物适应未来是一个紧迫的问题和具有挑战性的目标，涉及不同农业制度下以及多种环境驱动因素下的多种作物品种，要在更广泛的社会经济生态系统中提供多功能的作物育种解决方案。这一目标只能通过大规模的国际研究合作来实现。我们呼吁采取国际行动，并提出一项泛欧研究倡议——作物增产计划，以动员欧洲植物研究界，并将其与应对这一挑战所需的跨学科专业知识联系起来。
