Agriculture can be the solution to some of the world’s most pressing challenges – including unemployment, obesity, and climate change. These innovations simply need more research, more investment, and ultimately more funding.

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Zachary Jones, general manager of Twodot Land and Livestock Company, explores the ranch land with Shannon Agee-Jones, his wife, and two daughters, River and Scotland, on June 21, 2012 near Harlowton, Montana. Zachary Jones, co-founder and manager Yellowstone Grassfed Beef, works towards economic and ecological sustainability using holistic management techniques on his family's ranch.