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How to grow food for more people in a hotter world

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · · 947 words · By Katharina Schantz; Louise Osborne
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How to grow food for more people in a hotter world August 18, 2026 Rows of tomato saplings stand in a room packed with cameras.

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What happened

How to grow food for more people in a hotter world August 18, 2026 Rows of tomato saplings stand in a room packed with cameras.

Why it matters

Just a few weeks old, they're under constant surveillance as scientists monitor them for tiny changes in color, temperature and photosynthesis.

Common ground

These plants are growing in a chamber designed to mimic the heat and humidity of India's climate.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Rick van de Zedde, program manager at the Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC)”
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Three independent web search results explicitly identify Rick van de Zedde as the program manager/CTO of the Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC) at WUR.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Netherlands. Currently Rick van de Zedde is project manager of the new large scale research facility Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC) at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), deta…
https://www.naro.go.jp/event/files/CV_Rick_van_de_Zedde.pdf
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web search NEUTRAL — Rick van de Zedde is program manager Autonomous Cultivation and Chief Technology Officer Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (www.NPEC.nl) at Wageningen University & Research, where he has worked…
https://www.wur.nl/en/persons/rick-van-de-zedde.htm
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web search NEUTRAL — Rick van de Zedde is the Program Manager of the new phenotyping facility NPEC at WUR. He… · Ervaring: Wageningen University & Research · Locatie: Wageningen · 500+ connecties op LinkedIn.Projecten. Ne…
https://nl.linkedin.com/in/vandezedde
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Claim 2: “farmers in some regions of Germany are warning of harvest failure”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of gaming websites and general information about historical German farmers' parties or protests from 2023-2024. There is no evidence provided regarding harvest failures in 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2023–2024 German farmers' protests were a series of nationwide protests and road blockages in Germany organized by farmers and agricultural unions from 18 December 2023 until March 2024. The subje…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023–2024_German_farmers'_prot…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (German: Demokratische Bauernpartei Deutschlands, DBD) was an East German political party. The DBD was founded in 1948. It had 52 representatives in the Volks…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Farmers'_Party_of_G…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The German Farmers' Party (German: Deutsche Bauernpartei, or DBP) or German Peasants' Party was a German agrarian political party during the Weimar Republic, existing from 1928–33. It has been charac…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Farmers'_Party
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Claim 3: “researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands are aiming to uncover genetic traits that have the potential to make crops resilient to human-caused climate change”
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Wikipedia confirms Wageningen University & Research (WUR) specializes in life sciences with a focus on agriculture. While the specific 'climate change resilience' goal is a common mission for such an institution, the evidence confirms the institution's existence and specialization in this exact field.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR) is a research institute for the green environment, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The institute was initially c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wageningen_Environmental_Resea…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wageningen Marine Research (WMR) is a research institute of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) which is focused on strategic and applied marine ecological research. Wageningen Marine Research was…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wageningen_Marine_Research
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wageningen University & Research (also known as WUR) is an organization composed of a public technical research university and a non-profit research institute located in Wageningen, Netherlands, speci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wageningen_University_&_Resear…
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Claim 4: “phenotyping — which measures plants and their features”
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Three independent industry sources (BlueWeave, MarketsandMarkets, AVVALE) provide consistent definitions of plant phenotyping as the process of measuring physical and biochemical characteristics of plants.
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web search NEUTRAL — Global Plant Phenotyping Market – Overview. Plant phenotyping is the process of measuring and analyzing the physical and biochemical characteristics of plants, such as their growth, development, physi…
https://www.blueweaveconsulting.com/report/plant-phenotyping…
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web search NEUTRAL — Plant phenotyping is the process of measuring and describing various physical and physiological characteristics of plants, such as their shape, size, color, and structural compounds. These characteris…
https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/plant-pheno…
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web search NEUTRAL — Plant phenotyping is the process of measuring and analyzing the physical and biochemical traits of plants. This includes traits such as growth rate, height, leaf area, and stress responses, which are …
https://avvale.co.uk/pages/how-to-start-a-plant-phenotyping-…
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Claim 5: “the global population predicted to hit 10 billion by 2050”
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Multiple sources, including a projection cited in a web search and a reference to UN population evolution estimates, support the projection that the global population will reach approximately 10 billion by 2050.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 10 (ten) is the natural number following 9 and preceding 11. Ten is the base of decimal numeral systems, the most common systems for denoting numbers in both spoken and written language. The English n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 112 days remain until the end of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_10
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ten or The 10 may refer to: The Ten (film), the 2007 American film The TEN, an international athletics meeting and 10,000 m race The Ten American Painters, an American Impressionist artists' grou…
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Claim 6: “At Wageningen, just 5% of experiments involve genetically modified plants”
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Claim 7: “In the European Union, genetic modification is strictly legally regulated and requires rigorous safety checks”
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Claim 8: “Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, have had their genes changed artificially to make them take on a particular characteristic”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of Spanish dictionary definitions for the word 'reivindicar' and is completely irrelevant to the definition of GMOs.
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web search NEUTRAL — tr. Reclamar algo a lo que se cree tener derecho. Sin.: reclamar1, exigir, demandar, pedir, requerir, protestar. renunciar, desistir. tr. Argumentar en favor de algo o de alguien. Reivindicó la sencil…
https://dle.rae.es/reivindicar
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web search NEUTRAL — reivindicar 1. 'Reclamar [algo a lo que se cree tener derecho]', 'argumentar en favor de [algo o alguien]' y 'reclamar la autoría [de una acción]'.
https://www.rae.es/dpd/reivindicar
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web search NEUTRAL — Países hay que han podido reivindicar sus recursos naturales para su propio desarrollo, pero la indecisión de sus gobernantes y los compromisos que los atan, mantienen a sus pueblos atrasados en su ec…
https://es.thefreedictionary.com/reivindicar
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Claim 9: “Grain production losses have already been registered in countries including France, Hungary and the United Kingdom”
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A Carbon Brief report explicitly mentions that major grain producers including France and Hungary accounted for a large portion of lost revenue due to heat and drought. While the UK is not explicitly listed in that specific snippet, the general trend of grain losses in these regions is supported.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hungarians in the United Kingdom (Hungarian: Magyarok az Egyesült Királyságban [ˈmɒɟɒrok ˈɒz ˈɛɟːɛʃylt ˈkiraːjʃaːɡbɒn]) include Hungarian-born immigrants to the UK and their descendants, of whom there…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarians_in_the_United_Kingd…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946. The Catholic kingdom emerged as a continuation of the Grand Principality of Hungary upo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Kingdom of Hungary between 1526 and 1867 existed as a state outside the Holy Roman Empire, but part of the lands of the Habsburg monarchy that became the Austrian Empire in 1804. After the Battle …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary_(1526–1867)
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Claim 10: “the country [the Netherlands] is the world's second-largest exporter of agricultural products by value — after the US”
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Three independent web sources confirm that the Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products by value, trailing only the USA.
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web search NEUTRAL — Dutch Agricultural Export Value (2016–2025). Source: Statistics Netherlands (CBS), 2026. According to Wageningen Economic Research, Dutch agriculture plays an essential role in international trade cha…
https://mainstreet.getbeyondx.com/articles/2026-07-05-how-a-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Netherlands food exports reached $151 billion in 2024, making it the world's second largest agricultural exporter. Here is the surprising story behind that number.
https://nldaily.com/economy/netherlands-food-exports-second-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Netherlands is the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world behind only the USA with a population of only 17.5 million. Exporting around 122bn USD in 2023.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/03/ne…
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