Food production, crops and sustainability: restoring confidence in science and technology

▶ To meet the future food demands we should make use of the best science and technology to raise crop productivity and resource-use efficiencies of water and nutrients. ▶ New insights in genetics, systems functioning, and multiple stresses can guide the development of improved cultivars to close the yield gap. ▶ The challenge of meeting global food security in a sustainable way requires a knowledge-intensive approach and the use of advanced technologies. ▶ The confidence in modern agrotechnologies and biotechnologies should be restored by sound science, transparency and regulatory institutions.