**5. Conclusions**

The current food enterprise is under multiple threats from increasing population, depletion of resources, and the impact of climate change. Challenges in developing sustainable solutions to address these threats offer numerous research opportunities for innovations in the food processing sector, increase in agricultural production, and reduction in food wastage. Multidisciplinary efforts and cuttingedge developments will be necessary to approach many of the complex problems facing the food and agricultural enterprise. Since food is essential to sustain life, it is indeed the responsibility of everyone to ensure that the food system is sustainable not only for the current but also for future generations. Advances in science and technology are deemed to play a major role in addressing our food system's future sustainability.

*Technology, Science and Culture - A Global Vision, Volume III*
