How can we attract the best young minds to plant sciences so that they can address Grand Challengesfacing humanity such as climate change, food security, and fossil fuel replacement?
By providing some real examples to them about some places where unhealthy situations are arrived due to deforestation. It is also effective if we can explain the importances of bioresources and traditional medicines obtained from plant sources.
It should be a combination of many factors, Science, Politics, Public, Govt policies everything should be on the same page to combat this problem. Generation of public awareness is the most important part of this prospect.