Rattan Lal grew up on a small farm in India. Today he’s a world-renowned soil scientist (Iceland’s president is a fan, for instance) and a Distinguished University Professor in CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources. He works on three of the planet’s biggest (and mostly interconnected) issues: hunger, climate change, and water pollution. Ohio State “is a paradise for a researcher,” he says in a new video interview (2:14). “It provides an opportunity to do research globally.”