# How we can make crops survive without water

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal>Geneva
- Speaker: Jill Farrant
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Chemistry, Biology, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_farrant_how_we_can_make_crops_survive_without_water)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

As the world's population grows and the effects of climate change come into sharper relief, we'll have to feed more people using less arable land. Molecular biologist Jill Farrant studies a rare phenomenon that may help: "resurrection plants" -- super-resilient plants that seemingly come back from the dead. Could they hold promise for growing food in our coming hotter, drier world?

## Lectures

1. [How we can make crops survive without water](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jill_farrant_how_we_can_make_crops_survive_without_water/d0986eb11ca5), 14 min (TED's player)