Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant said agriculture intersects some of the world's pressing challenges, from meeting rising global demands to conserving precious natural resources like soil and water.
The challenge is clear: rising global population, coupled with larger incomes, means that demand for food is rapidly growing.
Meanwhile, regarding a comprehensive energy policy, we must squarely tackle a two-pronged challenge: responding to rising global energy demand and striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming.
The quest for such sustainable resources to meet the demands of a rapidly rising global population represents one of this century's grand challenges.
The quest for sustainable resources to meet the demands of a rapidly rising global population represents one of this century's grand challenges [7, 8].
Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict.
According to the Pentagon's 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap, "Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict.
"Today we'll need a similar bold new commitment to enable the current generation of Americans to rise to the global challenges we face," said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the education committee.
But if our citizens have never traveled or lived internationally, how can we expect our country to rise to these global challenges?
