Abstract
I would like to express my appreciation to Professor Malcolm Elliott, founding Director of the De Montfort University Norman Borlaug Institute for Plant Science Research, Pro-Chancellor Dr. John White, Vice-Chancellor Professor Kenneth Barker, and to the University's Board of Governors and faculty for the twin distinctions of naming a research institute in my honor and for awarding an Honorary D.Sc. degree to me. Professor Elliott has asked me to explore with you the complexities and challenges of feeding a world of 10 billion people, an event that will almost certainly occur during the lifetime of most students present here tonight. To give you some idea of the rate of population explosion we are now experiencing, in 1914, when I was born, there were only about 1.6 billion mouths to feed; today, we number some 5.8 billion.
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