“Ag, food, and risk management” are the future of Cargill according to the President of Cargill, the global agricultural company.

Fortune Magazine brought environmentalists and corporate folks together at the Brainstorm Green Conference last week.  It was’t a love fest from these traditional adversaries, but there seemed to be a new understanding and even agreement about the reality of the future of the environment.

They’ve seen the future and it is risk based.  The planet now has 7 billion people and 3 more billion are expected within a few generations.  How are they going to be fed?

Huge question.  No easy answer.  However, it’s bringing the mega corporations and environmentalists together with a huge concern to find common solutions.   The environmental community calls the solution: ‘sustainable intensification.’  The corporate agricultural community has a huge challenge – how to double agricultural production with existing acreage.

With huge challenges, the solution is now risk based collaboration even with traditional adversaries.

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http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/18/greg-page-mark-tercek-transcript/