Ag Innovation and Climate Change

Innovation is vital to combating rising challenges in food security and climate change while ensuring sustainability in agriculture.
New innovations such as genome editing are powerful tools in using agriculture as a solution to the climate crisis.
Genome editing helps plant breeders develop seed varieties that respond to and slow the pace of climate change by …
Building tolerant traits that can better respond to heat, drought, and flooding;
Increasing resistance to pests and pathogens;
Sequestering carbon in soil and removing harmful emissions from the atmosphere;
Improving photosynthesis to boost yields and increase drought tolerance;
Accelerating the domestication of wild crops into food sources to boost food resilience; and Redesigning crops to serve as more nutritious and sustainable food sources.
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