推荐买球平台食品奖入围者

非洲能否实现小麦自给?

“It’s possible to achieve wheat self-sufficiency in the coming 5 years in 埃塞俄比亚 and 苏丹,根据博士的说法. Wuletaw Tadesse, principal scientist and lead bread wheat breeder, ICARDA, Rabat, 摩洛哥.

Dr. 泰德斯领导着  ICARDA spring bread wheat breeding programme which is focused on developing high yielding and heat tolerant wheat. More than 60 bread wheat varieties developed through ICARDA have been released by national programmes in 非洲, 包括埃塞俄比亚(10例)和苏丹(5例). 它使小麦种植面积扩大了377倍,000公顷，估计额外产量为1.2200万吨.

该项目是2021年决赛入围者之一 推荐买球平台粮食安全创新奖, which aims to support scientific research that can deliver transformational impacts within global agriculture. 与 Agropolis基金会, the Prize recognises an innovative scientific research project for its potential impact on the availability, 可访问性, 食物的可负担性和充足性, 符合联合国可持续发展目标#2:消除饥饿. 获胜者将于今年9月公布，并将获得75美元的奖金,为扩大他们已证实的研究提供了1万美元的资助. An earlier iteration of ICARDA’s heat-tolerant durum wheat program won the 推荐买球平台 Prize in 2017.

The need for such innovations is great: although wheat is grown on around ten million hectares in 非洲, 在大多数撒哈拉以南的国家，它不是一种传统的作物, so it’s not inherently suitable to the climate nor do farmers have experience growing it, 气候还在继续变化. 

也许并不奇怪, wheat imports account for 60% of the continent’s wheat consumption and about a third of total food imports. 预计到2025年，小麦消费量将增长45%, it could mean that more than 80% of all wheat consumed in 非洲 is imported. 

“Our project funded by the 非洲n Development Bank started with thousands of breeding lines which we reduced to the 15 that offered the best combination of high yields and heat tolerance”, Dr. 特解释说. “Three sets were distributed for testing in 12 countries and the best candidates were then distributed to ‘hub project sites’ in 苏丹, 尼日利亚和埃塞俄比亚, 成群的农民, 磨坊主, 银行, scientists and other stakeholders across the value chain work together to offer support from production to market.” 

截至去年, 据估计超过76人,000 tons of certified wheat seed were distributed in 苏丹; and in 尼日利亚, 超过26个,向260多个国家分发了1 000吨经认证的种子,000名麦农. 在埃塞俄比亚, 超过24,516 tons of certified seeds of newly released heat tolerant wheat varieties have been produced and distributed to more than 251,000名小农. 

“推荐几个足彩外围app正在展示什么是可能的, but what’s necessary is that we ensure the availability of improved seeds. That means recruiting and educating youth groups to establish small scale seed farmers in addition to experienced seed growers so that quality seed production will become a thriving business scheme.” 

如果你想了解更多关于这个项目或参与, 请联系下面的W Tadesse或Z Bishaw.