Julie Mollins
Wheat scientists urge funding boost after UK-U.S. food security report
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Food shortages will escalate due to climate-change related production shocks and the international community must prepare to respond to price increases and social unrest.
Race for Food Security by 2050 Can be Won, Mexico Agriculture Secretary Says
Nutrition, health and food security
Mexico meeting outlines scientific roadmap for increasing wheat yields
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Mexico aims to boost domestic wheat production 9 percent by 2018, said a government official at a conference in Ciudad Obregon in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
On World Water Day, photos show role water plays in food security
Innovations
Water plays a vital role in irrigation and food production, accounting for 70 percent of global freshwater withdrawals, according to U.N. Water.
No scientific basis for criticism of wheat as a food staple, nutritionist says
Nutrition, health and food security
A nutritionist wants to dispel myths generated by claims that the protein found in wheat is unhealthy.
Prioritize food security, not conflict, wheat scientist advises
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Heat and drought are a major cause of wheat yield losses worldwide, problems that scientists predict will worsen due to climate change.
‘Gluten-free’ diets put food security, human health at risk – nutritionist
Nutrition, health and food security
Complete removal of wheat from the human diet would further cripple global efforts to feed the current global population of 7.2 billion, said Julie Miller Jones, a leading nutritionist.
Anti-wheat fad diets undermine global food security efforts
Nutrition, health and food security
A discussion paper aims to highlight unsubstantiated nutritional claims about wheat and gluten, while shining a spotlight on the important role of wheat and fiber in human diets.
Ethiopia’s seed co-ops benefit entrepreneurs and smallholder farmers
Nutrition, health and food security
Government-subsidized farmer-run cooperatives produce high-yielding, disease-resistant wheat seed, accelerating distribution and helping smallholder farmers grow healthy crops.
Global wheat-rust research aids Ethiopian farmers
Climate adaptation and mitigation
The 2014 World Food Prize laureate, Sanjaya Rajaram’s adaptable, high-yielding wheat varieties are grown on more than 58 million hectares worldwide.
Q+A: Young scientist wins award for “Taking it to the Farmer”
Innovations
Conservation agriculture is becoming a vital part of the rural landscape throughout Mexico and Latin America, leading to a major World Food Prize Field award for Bram Govaerts.
Food security successes earn ‘sultan of wheat’ World Food Prize
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Sanjaya Rajaram, 2014 World Food Prize laureate, is credited with producing 480 wheat varieties, leading to increased yields and food for more than 1 billion people a year.
Research on climate-resilient wheat keeps Green Revolution on track
Climate adaptation and mitigation
As the global population grows from a current 7 billion to a projected 9.6 billion by 2050, wheat breeders involved in the battle to ensure food security face many challenges.
