The significance of this issue is growing with each new achievement in biological, chemical, or social science. The application of science and technology is essential to solving world food problems. Training our future work force in these areas is a challenge for the 21st Century. Global cooperation can assist in the dissemination of developments in teaching and scientific research activities. Political and economic changes in the world occurring within the past 10 years have eliminated a large amount of global confrontation among nations.
Global cooperation offers a mechanism for tackling the aforementioned problems.
Participants included over 400 representatives from 30 different countries. At the conference, the idea of a global consortium was born. The three universities organizing the conference proposed a structure for a global consortium. Each of these universities pledged to identify and recruit other universities to participate in the consortium. At the conference, other universities from Europe and the United States stepped forward to join the Founding Committee of the Global Consortium of Agricultural Universities.