Food
Technology development towards building a new food system with improved productivity, sustainability and resilience
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Pick Up350. JIRCAS Efforts to Establish a New Food System〜Food Program
JIRCAS has started a five-year "Food Program" in April 2021 to promote the development of technologies to improve productivity, sustainability and resilience with the aim of building a new food system. This program contributes to stable food production, international food supply and demand, and food and nutrition security in the target areas through the development of technologies that meet the needs of the diversifying food systems in developing regions.