 My name is William Ganje. I'm Professor and Chairman for Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department here at NDSU. I'm going to be talking about my food system leadership project today. It was a two-year program. The title is Expertise in Reserving Complex Food Health Challenges. The food we produce and eat have enormous opportunities to resolve complex health issues around the globe. We are all familiar with obesity problems. Obesity alone in the United States costs $322 billion annually. It's a global epidemic. Food security issues. Even though we produce 1.5 billion excess calories, here we have about 1 billion people around the globe go hungry every day. We also have challenges with food waste. There's about 1.3 billion tons of food waste around the globe. So how do we provide food for poor communities and solve these complex issues? My project was looking at a trigger point where a marginal impact can resolve to a really big change. And the emphasis of my project is on human capital development. How can we increase expertise? Especially expertise from poor communities and from minority communities. Training young experts. They are the ones who are going to solve this problem 10, 20, 30, 50 years into the future. So we in the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics will study joint programs. This program is having a master's in agribusiness and an MBA. The project that we're working on is well-aligned with NDSU's Grand Challenges, which is food and health. One of the core areas. And what we have done in our department, we've started a strategic plan document and we've developed a stage one PhD proposal with many departments. That proposal will also be working with a lot of institutes here at NDSU like GIPSA, the Food Safety Institute. We're working with Indian universities. We're working with food ecology centers around the globe so that students can go out in the field, do research on those critical areas and how we can solve those problems. So again, I want to thank all my folks at the Food Systems Leadership Institute. My colleagues at cohort 10, I look forward to working with you guys in the future to continue resolving some of these complex food health problems.