Having served as invited foreign expert to 7 PRC Minister, lecture to Agriculture, Forestry, Science, Law universities, and led in soil, food, forestry security across 9 provinces, the challenges for PRC 2015—is greater than any other nation! Each nation is seriously different not related. With respect your questions are too narrow to address “saving the future!
The following from hands on teaching! Best to address PRC conditions specifically!
(1) Firstly perpetual land tenure to PRC Farmers Herders. Grow soil, soil-carbon-nutrients.
(2) Food security relies on secure nutrient rich soil and water. Do not set bench marks in a decade but perpetual to set a model for you to become farmers.
(3) PRC greatest challenge is lack of teaching planning perpetual soil, soil-elements hence it must import food and fodder and forestry. The problem is UN, UK, USA AU Australia all report 20-40 more years of soil to grow food. So PRC suffering more than the above a plan to grow soil for food and to stop deserts. Farmer education and land tenure key to survive!
PRC has hand pollinated for 32 years a global challenge is grow soil and bees and lowering CO2e.
(4) Teach soil water vegetation atmosphere bees are the only assets of all living matter all else but commodities. Sadly without President XI grating land tenure to Farmers Herders you have 14 more years of soil.
Best your conference addresses the PRC loss of the 5 base assets and how to write curriculum to schools, Universities and Farmer groups. Check PRC media SFA et al for some of my published copies but part of the above. Do not close the conference without a projected plan. Robert Vincinwww.youtube.com/watch?v=YbI8YZmBP8g&feature=youtu.be
Mr. Robert Vincin