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Growing Impacts of Drought:

East Africa17% increase

Oceania11% increase

East Asia and Paci�c7-8% increase

North Africa11% increase

South Asia11-12% increase

Middle East and North Africa7-9% increase

North America5-7% increase

Worldwide yield improvements with drought tolerance trait8

Technology Profile:• Drought-tolerant varieties

developed through biotechnology enable farmers to protect their harvest and minimize losses in times of severe drought by using water more efficiently.

• In 2013, U.S. farmers planted the first commercial biotech varieties of drought-tolerant maize in the world. African researchers are preparing to release their continent’s first drought-tolerant biotech varieties in 2017.5

• Drought-tolerant crops show exciting promise for improving food security in dry, vulnerable climates. In East Africa, drought-tolerant maize is estimated to increase yields 17% in severe droughts.6

• Drought-tolerant rice is in early stage development and demonstrating 12% to 17% higher yields.7

Impact of Drought on Global Agriculture:Droughts can be devastating to a grower’s harvest as their plants are starved of essential water resources. As the impacts of climate change grow each year, increasingly volatile weather conditions and more frequent and severe droughts will threaten farmers’ ability to provide a steady food supply.

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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:

Over the last 30 years, there were an estimated

470 drought-related disasters around the world.2

Today, about 15% of potential maize yield is lost to drought each year.4

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that droughts have become longer and more intense in many regions, especially in Europe and Africa, over the past 60 years.1

By 2030, Latin America, Africa and Southwest Asia are expected to be significantly drier and at risk of regular, extreme droughts.3

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. International Food Policy Research Institute AgriTech Toolbox Crop Model: http://apps.harvestchoice.org/agritech-toolbox/

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