Agriculture’s Role in Mitigating Global Challenges

April 2015 Hermann Lecture, Robb Fraley, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Monsanto and World Food Prize Laureate. Experts around the world agree that the population is expected to reach 9.5 billion people by 2050. Those numbers include approximately 3 billion people that will be entering the middle class that will want access to a balanced meal for their family. As climate patterns, planting zones, and plant diseases and pest pressures fluctuate and shift; further strains are put upon our natural resources including water and its availability. These issues combine and become one of the greatest challenges for food security in the history of agriculture. To ensure we can safely provide for everyone, we need to increasingly work together and collaborate towards a common solution. Today, leaders throughout the agriculture sector are exploring new innovations that can help farmers produce more food on less land, while also identifying ways to improve soil health and the environment around us.

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