United States: Importance of Agriculture to National Security Scrutinized

Nov 5, 2015 | Laura Lloyd, Food Business News
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The United States needs to stay a step ahead of key challenges faced by its agriculture sector, especially resource scarcity, the threat of bioterrorism and greater productivity as world population expands from about 6 billion people in 2015 to 9 billion by 2050, said Ambassador John Negroponte, former U.S. deputy secretary of state under President George W. Bush, in hearings on American agriculture and national security before the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture.