Novel Strategies for Designing Climate‐Smart Crops to Ensure Sustainable Agriculture and Future Food Security

ABSTRACT To fulfil food and nutritional demand for nine billion people by the mid‐21st century, global food production must increase by 60% regardless of challenges such as environmental pollution, water scarcity and land degradation. Climate change exacerbates the frequency and intensity of biotic and abiotic stresses, which, in turn, severely compromise global crop yields, jeopardize food supply, deteriorate sustainable development goals for achieving global food safety, and limit sustainable climate‐smart crop production. Current food production and consumption practices negatively influence the environment, posing a major threat to the global ecosystem and human health. Addressing these critical issues to…