A presentation given at the National Geographic store in Madrid on July 28, 2011.

1. Unlocking agriculture’s past to feed the future world Jacob van Etten

2. 1 Feedingthefutureworld

3. IPCC, 2007

4. % change -95 to -31 -30 to -11 -10 to -1 0 1 to 29 30 to 47 48 to 98 Change in suitabilityduetoclimatechange 50 crops, to 2050 Andrew Jarvis, CIAT/CCAFS

5. D. Lobell et al. 2011

11. 2 Thepastisthekeytothefuture

15. China, 6000 years before present

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21. Geneticchange earlyfarmersselect

22. 3 Thescience of agriculturalorigins

24. Nikolai I. Vavilov (1887-1943) Centres of origin

26. Flotation

27. Rice spikelet bases Which is the domesticated one?

28. 14C radiocarbon dating accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS)

29. Phytoliths scanning electron microscope (SEM)

30. Experimental archaeology

31. Bones Was agriculture such a good idea after all?

32. DNA analysis “Old” DNA recovery

33. Current patterns of genetic diversity

34. 4 Heritage of thepast: agriculturaldiversity

38. Transfer of genes from CWR tocrops “Scuba rice” Flood-tolerance gene from landrace

40. Photo: J. Cherfas, Bioversity International

41. Photo: J. Cherfas, Bioversity International

45. 5 Geography: thepower of maps and models

46. Seed samples available from the multilateral system

47. Gaps in the collections example for sorghum

49. Archaeological data Maize origin in Mexico

50. Overlappingpart of thedispersalroute Divergentpart of thedispersalroute Origin of dispersal

51. R2 = 0.44 measuredgeneticdistance predictedgeneticdistance

54. Interactive online mapping +

55. www.ie.edu/mgec