The agriculture of the future: Science and technology for sustainable agricultural development

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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.10.12546

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agriculture, food security, sustainability, climate change

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Guaranteeing access to food for a growing human population – based on sustainability criteria and in the face of the climate change threat – is the main challenge for twenty-first-century agriculture. The solutions are inevitably complex, require a variety of coordinated measures, and essentially, are dependent on the progress of science and the development of technologies to make more efficient use of available resources to increase crop yields and food quality to feed the world. Technologies such as genomics, computing, robotics, and nanotechnology, along with their correct application – which will require highly qualified users – will also be crucial elements to reach these objectives.

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Pere Arús, Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA

Researcher at the Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA, Spain). He is an agricultural engineer from the University of Valencia and has a PhD in Genetics from the University of California (Davis). Arús is an expert in population genetics, crop evolution, and genetic improvement, where he has specialised in the use of molecular markers and other genomic tools to improve fruit trees and vegetables, and is the author of more than 200 scientific papers. He was the Scientific Director of IRTA and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG).

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2020-01-08

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Arús, P. (2020). The agriculture of the future: Science and technology for sustainable agricultural development. Metode Science Studies Journal, (10), 33–39. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.10.12546
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