100 essential questions for the future of agriculture

• DOI: 10.1002/moda.5
• Publication Date: 2023-04-11T17:20:01Z
• Authors: Yuming Hu; Taolan Zhao; Yafang Guo; Meng Wang; Kerstin Brachhold; Chengcai Chu; Andrew Hanson; Sachin Kumar; Rongcheng Lin; Wenjin Long; Ming Luo; Jian Feng Ma; Yansong Miao; Shaoping Nie; Yu Sheng; Weiming Shi; James Whelan; Qingyu Wu; Ziping Wu; Wei Xie; Yinong Yang; Chao Zhao; Lei Lei; Yong‐Guan Zhu; Qifa Zhang
• Keywords: Sustainable Diets and Environmental Impact; Economics; Agriculture (General); FOS: Political science; Population; Agricultural biotechnology; FOS: Law; S1-972; Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biomass and Bioenergy in the Bioeconomy; Sociology; Grand Challenges; Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network; Climate change; Business; Environmental resource management; Political science; Biology; QH540-549.5; Economic growth; Environmental planning; Multidisciplinary approach; Ecology; Geography; Agriculture, land and farm management; Physics; Sustainable agriculture; FOS: Agricultural biotechnology; Life Sciences; Agriculture; Human society; Food security; FOS: Sociology; Food systems; Environmental health; Sustainability; Archaeology; FOS: Biological sciences; Resilience (materials science); Environmental Science; Physical Sciences; Medicine; Thermodynamics; Food Waste Management and Reduction; Human geography; General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Law; Food Science

AbstractThe world is at a crossroad when it comes to agriculture. The global population is growing, and the demand for food is increasing, putting a strain on our agricultural resources and practices. To address this challenge, innovative, sustainable, and inclusive approaches to agriculture are urgently required. In this paper, we launched a call for Essential Questions for the Future of Agriculture and identified a priority list of 100 questions. We focus on 10 primary themes: transforming agri‐food systems, enhancing resilience of agriculture to climate change, mitigating climate change through agriculture, exploring resources and technologies for breeding, advancing cultivation methods, sustaining healthy agroecosystems, enabling smart and controlled‐environment agriculture for food security, promoting health and nutrition‐driven agriculture, exploring economic opportunities and addressing social challenges, and integrating one health and modern agriculture. We emphasise the critical importance of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research that integrates both basic and applied sciences and bridges the gaps among various stakeholders for achieving sustainable agriculture.