This book introduces modern trends to support and enhance the global grain system, a crucial pillar in achieving sustainable development goals and ensuring food security for the people of Earth. It focuses on increasing productivity of key crops, sustaining agricultural and environmental resources, and preserving the environment and its resources.
- In the first chapter, the definition of the agricultural environment and its components is introduced, along with the relationship of agricultural systems to environmental systems and their mutual influence.
- The second chapter examines the resilience of agricultural systems in the face of shocks and stresses.
- Chapter Three assesses the global production and consumption of strategic crops (wheat, corn, and rice), which account for about 23% of total agricultural and food system production worldwide, emphasizing their crucial role in food security and sustainable development.
- Chapter Four discusses methods and mechanisms for transforming and reshaping agricultural and food systems, including the preservation of genetic resources, soil properties, efficient irrigation water management, and crop improvement.
- Chapter Five explores the importance of preserving and sustaining plant genetic resources for global food and agriculture, considering the impact of agricultural production systems, environmental and climate changes, and genetic erosion. It also reviews the role of the World Food and Agriculture Organization in this preservation effort, including the global action plan and its organizational structure.
- Chapter Six: It focused on reviewing support for the global seed system and achieving sustainable development in seed production, by introducing official and community seed systems, farmersÕ seeds, and others, and reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of each system, how these systems are interconnected together, and the role of organizations, governments, and local communities in supporting and developing them. These systems are beneficial in providing good seeds with high productivity that preserve resources and genetic characteristics.
- Chapter Seven: reviews the modern trends in seed technology science and the extent of its importance in supporting and developing the global grain system because of its multiple roles, being the primary source of agricultural production, preserving plant genetic resources that are distinguished by the characteristics of grains, its importance as a commercial and ...