Scalable Knowledge Management to Meet Global 21st Century Challenges in Agriculture

Challenges to World Agriculture in the 21st Century

Challenge I: Global Food Security The first and continuing challenge facing world agriculture is to produce enough food to feed the growing world population. World population could reach eight billion people by 2025. Nearly all of the increase of two billion people in the next 25 years will be in developing countries. The urban population in developing countries will rise by a like number. The ...

Educational Management Challenges for the 21st Century

While demands for large scale improvements in education systems increase worldwide, education system structures continuously fail to meet, or even make notable advancements, toward these demands. Inseparable from this problem is the very similar way in which education systems are managed. Educational managerial structures have become so universal, perpetual, and therefore, deeply ingrained in s...

The Challenges of Cognitive Neuroscience in the 21st Century

Global optimization in the 21st century: Advances and challenges

This paper presents an overview of the research progress in global optimization during the last 5 years (1998–2003), and a brief account of our recent research contributions. The review part covers the areas of (a) twice continuously differentiable nonlinear optimization, (b) mixedinteger nonlinear optimization, (c) optimization with differential-algebraic models, (d) optimization with grey-box...

Harnessing Knowledge Management for Africa’s Transition to the 21st Century

The paper starts with an exploration of knowledgemanagement which focuses on the knowledgepyramid concept. The successful management ofthe transition from an agricultural to a knowledgebased society, it is argued, should go beyond formu-lating information communication technology pol-icies to include knowledge management policies aswell. The contribution of informati...