Learn about Agriculture

Summary:  Crop breeding is a rapidly advancing science, that uses genetic and biological innovations to efficiently develop better crop varities.

Summary:  The 1996 World Food Summit states that food security "exists when all people, at all times, have physical and ecnomoic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food prefereneces for an active and healthy life." How can plant breeding contribute to food security?

Summary:  DNA is the recipe for life!  Differences in the genetic code are the reason why one person has blue eyes rather than brown, why some people are susceptible to certain diseases, why birds only have two wings, and why giraffes have long necks.

Summary:  Genetic engineering allows us to harness natural systems to produce crops with enhanced nutrition and to produce medicines that would not toherwise be possible.

Summary: Did you know the cultivation of the first crops led to the first permanent settlements? Plant domestication started some 10,000 years ago by farmers selecting the best performing plants in a field.