The Wheat Initiative aims to coordinate worldwide wheat research efforts to increase food security, nutrition, and sustainable agricultural production systems. It will facilitate communication between research groups, identify synergies, and encourage collaboration on wheat genetics, genomics, physiology, breeding and agronomy. The initiative also fosters communication between researchers, funders, and policymakers to better understand strategic priorities and funding needs to support long-term wheat research and global well-being.

2. The Wheat Initiative aims to reinforce synergies between bread and durum wheat
national and international research programmes to increase food security,
nutritional value and safety while taking into account societal demands for
sustainable and resilient agricultural production systems.
Strengthening coordination of world wheat research
The Wheat Initiative will coordinate worldwide research efforts in the fields of wheat genetics,
genomics, physiology, breeding and agronomy.
The Wheat Initiative will provide a forum to facilitate communication between
research groups and organisations worldwide.
groups and organisations worldwide.
It will identify potential synergies and encourage collaborations among major existing
or emerging wheat research programmes (regional, national, international, public or
private). It will also support the development of publicly available integrated
databases and platforms and establish and periodically update priorities for wheat
research of global relevance.

3. The Wheat Initiative aims to foster communication between the research
community, funders and global policy makers at the international level to
meet their research and development goals.
Achieving the following will hopefully secure and enhance long term funding of
wheat research in support of global well-being:
 Better understanding of the strategic orientations and funding needs as
recommended by the research community
 Improved knowledge among the funders of their current research and
development investments and future plans
 Opportunity to work together
Dr. Hélène Lucas
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
147 rue de l'Université
75338 Paris Cedex 07
France
Tel: + 33 (0) 1 42 75 92 53
Cell: + 33 (0) 6 71 92 38 44
Hélène LUCAS <Helene.Lucas@versailles.inra.fr>
http://wheatinitiative.org/