Developing Food System Leaders for the 21st Century

As Chancellor of North Carolina State University, I take great pride in the contributions the land-grant universities have made to food systems. The vision demonstrated by the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 and the acts that followed help create the world’s most productive, safest, and most affordable food systems. Senator Morrill could never have imagined a time when 2% of the population feed not only our citizens in the United States but also those in many other parts of the world.

As a food s…