DROUGHT TOLERANCE Impact of Drought on Global Agriculture: Technology Profile: Droughts can be devastating to a grower’s harvest as their plants are starved of • Drought-tolerant varieties essential water resources. As the impacts of climate change grow each year, developed through biotechnology increasingly volatile weather conditions and more frequent and severe droughts enable farmers to protect their will threaten farmers’ ability to provide a steady food supply. harvest and minimize losses in times of severe drought by using Growing Impacts of Drought: water more efficiently. • In 2013, U.S. farmers planted The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that the first commercial biotech droughts have become longer and more intense in many regions, especially in varieties of drought-tolerant Europe and Africa, over the past 60 years.1 maize in the world. African researchers are preparing to Over the last 30 years, there were an estimated release their continent’s first drought-tolerant biotech varieties 470 drought-related disasters in 2017.5 around the world.2 • Drought-tolerant crops show exciting promise for improving food security in dry, vulnerable climates. By 2030, Latin America, Africa and Southwest Asia In East Africa, drought-tolerant are expected to be significantly drier and at risk maize is estimated to increase yields 17% in severe droughts.6 of regular, extreme droughts.3 • Drought-tolerant rice is in Today, about 15% of potential maize early stage development and demonstrating 12% to 17% 4 yield is lost to drought each year. higher yields.7 Global Benefits: By 2050, farmers will need to produce enough food to feed 9 billion people while battling increasingly severe and more frequent droughts that threaten to dry up soils, wither crops and deplete water supplies. Drought-tolerant varieties can enable farmers to adapt to these new conditions and can deliver greater yields around the world: North America 5-7% increase North Africa Middle East and East Asia and Pacic 11% increase 7-8% increase North Africa 7-9% increase Worldwide yield improvements with 8 drought tolerance trait South Asia East Africa 11-12% increase 17% increase Oceania 11% increase References: 1. IPCC, 2012: Summary for Policymakers. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation [Field, C.B., V. Barros, T.F. Stocker, D. Qin, D.J. Dokken, K.L. Ebi, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, G.-K. Plattner, S.K. Allen, M. Tignor, and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-19. 2. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2012, “Number of Climate-related Disasters Around the World 1980-2011 (Infographic),” http://www.preventionweb.net/files/20120613_ClimateDisaster1980-2011.pdf. 3. IPCC, 2012: Summary for Policymakers. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation 4. Edmeades, G., 2008, “Drought Tolerance in Maize: An Emerging Reality,” in ISAAA Brief 39: Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2008, International Service for the Acquisition for Agri-biotech Applications. 5. 2014 International Food Policy Research Institute: Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity: The Role of Agricultural Technologies. Mark W. Rosegrant, Jawoo Koo, Nicola Cenacchi, Claudia Ringler, Richard Robertson, Myles Fisher, Cindy Cox, Karen Garrett, Nicostrato D. Perez, and Pascale Sabbagh. 6. 2014 International Food Policy Research Institute: Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity: The Role of Agricultural Technologies. 7. Coghlan A., “Super-rice defies triple whammy of stresses” New Scientists, February 28, http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25147-superrice-defies- triple-whammy-of-stresses.html#.Ux9nSPldUUj. 8. 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