Droughts affect crop production across the world. A central challenge for researchers and policymakers is to devise technologies that lend greater resilience to agricultural production under this particular environmental stress.

Interdrought 2020 aims to facilitate the development of concepts, methods and technologies associated with plant production in water-limited environments.

The congress will focus on the following themes:

• Optimizing dryland crop production – crop design
• Water capture, transpiration, transpiration efficiency
• Vegetative and reproductive growth
• Breeding for water-limited environments
• Managing cropping systems for adaptation to water-limited environments