Yuan D. W. auteur aut IRD Bassie L. auteur aut IRD Sabalza M. auteur aut IRD Miralpeix B. auteur aut IRD Dashevskaya S. auteur aut IRD Farre G. auteur aut IRD Rivera S. M. auteur aut IRD Banakar R. auteur aut IRD Bai C. auteur aut IRD Sanahuja G. auteur aut IRD Arjo G. auteur aut IRD Avilla E. auteur aut IRD Zorrilla-Lopez U. auteur aut IRD Ugidos-Damboriena N. auteur aut IRD Lopez A. auteur aut IRD Almacellas D. auteur aut IRD Zhu C. F. auteur aut IRD Capell T. auteur aut IRD Hahne Gunther auteur aut IRD Twyman R. M. auteur aut IRD Christou P. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are international development targets for the year 2015 that aim to achieve relative improvements in the standards of health, socioeconomic status and education in the world's poorest countries. Many of the challenges addressed by the MDGs reflect the direct or indirect consequences of subsistence agriculture in the developing world, and hence, plant biotechnology has an important role to play in helping to achieve MDG targets. In this opinion article, we discuss each of the MDGs in turn, provide examples to show how plant biotechnology may be able to accelerate progress towards the stated MDG objectives, and offer our opinion on the likelihood of such technology being implemented. In combination with other strategies, plant biotechnology can make a contribution towards sustainable development in the future although the extent to which progress can be made in today's political climate depends on how we deal with current barriers to adoption. specialized Plant biotechnology Millennium Development Goals Poverty Hunger Malnutrition HIV/AIDS Agriculture Developing countries 116 076 30 3 249-265 2011 0721-7714 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010053352 10.1007/s00299-010-0987-5 0721-7714 [F B010053352] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010053352 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2011/03/010053352.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2011-04-07 2017-08-23 fdi:010053352 fre