Staple crops

Feeding the world

Only a handful of plants dominate our fields and our diet. But not all of them only end up on our plates, some also end up in the feed trough or in the tank. Even if the diversity on our plates increases again in the future, they will continue to play an important role. Cultivation today is sometimes associated with major challenges. How will we solve them in the future?

Get to know some of the most important main crops here:

🌽 Corn (Zea mays)

🌱 Soy (Glycine max)

🌾 wheat (Triticum aestivum / durum)

🍚 Rice (Oryza sativa / glaberrima)

For a world without hunger

A world without hunger - that is the goal. But we are still a long way off: in 2023, around 733 million people suffered from hunger - 122 more than in 2019. And many more people are affected by foo...