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Feeding the world will be one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. It will be impossible without using scientific advancements and biotechnology.

I believe we have the potential to quadruple Australia's food exports to Asia.

Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports.

I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this.

To affordably feed the next billion people, we must have higher-yielding crops with even greater nutritional value. America should be at the vanguard of the innovative advances that will make this happen.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.