Nobel Prize winners warn "moonshoot" technology is now needed to avoid world hunger
150 Nobel Prize and World Food Prize winners signed the open letter.
Cereals that can grow without fertiliser are one of the high-risk, high-reward, research breakthroughs on which the world now relies to avoid a global hunger catastrophe in the next 25 years, according to more than 150 Nobel and World Food Prize winners.
The broad coalition of the world’s greatest thinkers said it is too late for incremental agricultural productivity improvements to meet future needs, and "moonshot" initiatives are instead needed, like the cereals that can source their own nitrogen biologically.
