Description

Agriculture as it currently exists cannot be sustained. In addition, maintaining and increasing crop productivity necessitates a stronger capacity for climate adaptation, which will make it possible to expand cultivation and yield resilience. Crop resilience could be enhanced by significant advancements in genome editing, but governments and society have resisted these technologies. Similarly, advances in plant breeding have not been as rapid as those in basic plant science, which have resulted in novel and transformative innovations. There is a significant and unbridgeable gap between advances in basic plant science and society's acceptance of genome editing innovations. We draw attention to the issues and suggest potential solutions. Alternative approaches to crop improvement have increased as a result of the need to ensure agriculture's sustainability in the face of climate change. To address potential threats to food security in the future, advances in integrated crop breeding, social acceptance, and farm-level adoption are crucial. Cultural acknowledgment can be slow when purchasers don't see the requirement for development or quick advantages.

Farm to Fork Strategy

The issue of social license and unified governance for novel gene technologies in plant breeding is the subject of our consideration. In addition, we draw attention to optimal breeding practices that will make it possible to make genetic gains over the course of time. Advanced by blended worldwide strategy change, creative plant reproducing can understand high and manageable efficiency along with upgraded healthful attributes. When more than two to three abiotic and/or biotic stress factors have an effect on a plant at the same time, this is known as a multifactorial stress combination. An Earth-wide temperature boost, environmental change, and modern contamination could bring about an expansion in the recurrence, intricacy, and force of multifactorial pressure mixes affecting plants, soils, and microbial networks. Even if the levels of each of these individual stresses are extremely low, the survival and growth of plants decrease as the number of factors that have an effect on them simultaneously rise. Plants have a singular response to a multifactorial stress combination that involves numerous transcripts and genes that are not altered in response to each individual stress. Our society should be given a dire warning by the negative effects of a multifactorial stress combination on the survival and growth of plants, various soil properties, and diversity of microbial communities, and we should take drastic action to reduce the various sources of multifactorial stresses in our environment. A dangerous atmospheric devation, environmental change, and ecological contamination present plants with extraordinary mixes of various abiotic and biotic burdens. Albeit a lot is realized about how plants adapt to every one of these singular burdens, little is had some significant awareness of how they answer a blend of a considerable lot of these pressure factors happening together, specifically a multifactorial pressure mix. According to recent research, both the microbiome biodiversity that plants rely on and plant growth and survival suffer greatly when the number of distinct co-occurring multifactorial stress factors rises. This impact ought to act as a critical advance notice to our general public and brief us to conclusively act to lessen contaminations, battle an unnatural weather change, and increase the resilience of yields to multifactorial pressure mixes. Regardless of the farming methods used, sustainable food systems will necessitate significant shifts in people's consumption habits and lifestyles. This is true even though organic farming frequently requires more land to produce the same amount of food as conventional farming.

Organic Farming

The EU's organic farming practices are one way to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); the achievement of SDGs 2, 13, and 15 may be threatened by additional features. A widespread switch to organic farming in the EU may prove to be detrimental to global sustainability because the positive direct effects on climate and biodiversity may outweigh the negative indirect effects of additional land use changes. Integrating biotech innovations into organic farming would help achieve the SDGs. Even though it is unlikely that the necessary amendments to EU law will be implemented given the political climate at the moment, they are still recommended from a scientific standpoint. Under the European Green Deal, the Farm to Fork strategy of the European Commission acknowledges that cutting-edge methods, such as biotechnology, may contribute to increasing sustainability. Organic farming will also be promoted, and by 2030, organic farming will cover at least 25% of the agricultural land in the EU. To help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), how can organic farming and biotechnology be developed and promoted simultaneously? We demonstrate that organic farming can help achieve the SDGs by incorporating recent biotechnology advancements. The law needs to change because of this. Otherwise, the F2F strategy's planned increase in organic production may result in less sustainable food systems rather than more sustainable ones. The Farm to Fork strategy was recently launched by the European Commission (EC).The European Green Deal is built on this plan, which plays a crucial role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations. The F2F system recognizes that new creative methods, including biotechnology, may assume a part in expanding manageability. Organic farming will also be promoted, and by 2030, organic farming will cover at least 25% of the agricultural land in the EU. To help achieve the SDGs as a whole, how can organic farming and biotechnology be developed and promoted simultaneously? Many people believe that the current legal framework in the EU classifies numerous products that are the result of novel methods in plant breeding as Genetically Modified (GM) organisms, whereas organic farming and the processing of organic products legally prohibit the use of GMOs. As a result, combining these two aspects of the F2F strategy appears to be difficult, if not impossible, despite the fact that they could actually work well together if legally permitted. We show, through a few examples, how including biotechnology innovations in organic farming helps achieve the SDGs. We call for a change in EU law to make this possible. Under the current political circumstances, it is unlikely that such a legal change would be implemented. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), as well as policymakers and interest groups at the EU and national levels, appear to favor policies that strictly separate organic production from modern biotechnology. Even though it is difficult from a scientific perspective to justify such a strict separation between "organic," "conventional," and GMOs, the planned increase in organic production in the F2F strategy may result in food systems that are less sustainable rather than more sustainable. These outcomes are unaffected by consumer meat consumption and food waste reduction. The fact that organic farming frequently requires more land than conventional agriculture to produce the same amount of food does not change the fact that sustainable food systems will require significant shifts in people's consumption habits and lifestyles.