At the G20 Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists this week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture underscored the importance of agricultural research and development in tackling the challenges of global food security and climate change, while calling on G20 members to support the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate.
Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, USDA’s chief scientist, led the U.S. delegation to the meeting, where agricultural science leaders from around the world convened to discuss global challenges facing agriculture and to align both national and global research and development priorities.
Meeting participants did not reach consensus on the communique due to the absence of language condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In explaining the U.S. position, Jacobs-Young, USDA’s under-secretary for research, education, and economics for the Biden-Harris Administration, condemned Russia’s unprovoked invasio