The Pro-Wild project was recently featured in an article on SustainabilityOnline. Jacques Le Gouis explains how the project is working to integrate wild relatives of crops such as wheat, oil seed rape and sugar beet into modern agriculture. By tapping into their natural resilience to climate stressors such as drought and disease, Pro-Wild aims to create more sustainable food systems. The full article explores how these innovations can safeguard food security in the face of climate change.
Read more here.
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Dr Jacques Le Gouis
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE)
5 Chemin de Beaulieu, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
mailto:jacques.le-gouis(at)inrae.fr