The Southeast Farm Press published a story yesterday summarizing a presentation given at Clemson University on June 10. The speaker was Sonny Ramaswamy presenting a talk on the role food and agriculture will play in the future. He focused on both the promise and the problems faced by agriculture in the U.S. and globally.
Population growth is the mother of all these ‘”wicked problems,” he said, followed by food supply, water supply, climate change, energy, health and poverty. He referred to how the research conducted at land-grant universities 30-40 years ago, and supported with funding from the predecessor agencies of the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, is benefiting agriculture today with increased yields.
You can read the article here. Note that USDA-NIFA is one of the main sponsors of this blog.
