Pasta's future: Italy tests climate-resistant wheat

In the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy's 'Food Valley', researchers are creating the pasta of the future by focusing on its main ingredient, wheat, France 24 reported this week. The work is a direct response to the climate pressures now reshaping Mediterranean agriculture, as heatwaves and drought have become recurring features of Italian summers.

The project, covered by France 24's correspondents, involves breeding wheat varieties that can withstand higher temperatures and reduced water availability, traits that are becoming essential as the country's iconic pasta industry faces an uncertain supply chain. Italy is one of the world's largest pasta producers, and its durum wheat fields are increasingly vulnerable to the very conditions that scientists predict will worsen.