{"id":21934,"date":"2020-02-20T15:14:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T15:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/?p=21934"},"modified":"2020-02-20T15:14:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T15:14:54","slug":"feeding-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/feeding-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Multidisciplinary effort tackles global food insecurity<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21955 size-featured_large\" src=\"http:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/Dil-Thavarajah_033-X3-e1581966051315-1500x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The new Feed the Future\u00a0<\/span>Innovation Lab for Crop <span class=\"s2\">Improvement (ILCI) will <\/span>support multidisciplinary <span class=\"s2\">expertise at the cutting-edge <\/span>of agricultural development focused on tackling the global challenges of climate change, poverty and food security. The lab features experts in plant breeding, machine learning, quantitative genetics, gender inclusion and other disciplines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stephen Kresovich, the Robert and <\/span>Lois Coker Trustees Endowed Chair of Genetics in Clemson\u2019s plant and environmental sciences department, has been named director of the laboratory, and Dil Thavarajah, Clemson associate professor of pulse crop quality and nutrition, will <span class=\"s1\">co-lead the lab\u2019s trait analysis team. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The ILCI is a collaboration between <span class=\"s1\">Kansas State University, Cornell <\/span>University and Clemson and will be based in Cornell\u2019s International Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The project will support and empower national breeding programs in East and West Africa, South Asia, and Latin America and serve as a model for introducing advanced agricultural technologies at scale to countries around the world. <span class=\"s1\">The project is funded by a five-year, $25 <\/span>million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, as part of the U.S. government\u2019s Feed the Future initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cWe are in a critical point in history where booming population growth, climate change and other environmental factors are exposing threats of global food insecurity at an unprecedented <span class=\"s1\">scale,\u201d Kresovich said. \u201cImproved vari<\/span>eties of key food crops are one of the surest avenues to reducing risks from economic, environmental and climatic shocks for millions of people in vulnera<span class=\"s1\">ble and resource-poor populations.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multidisciplinary effort tackles global food insecurity The new Feed the Future\u00a0Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement (ILCI) will support multidisciplinary expertise at the cutting-edge of agricultural development focused on tackling the global challenges of climate change, poverty and food security. The lab features experts in plant breeding, machine learning, quantitative genetics, gender inclusion and other disciplines. 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