By Tiffany Stecker, E&E reporter, March 23, 2015
(Published by Environment & Energy Daily)
Agricultural research is a tough sell on the Hill. Though everyone benefits from it, it doesn’t offer the near-immediate gratification of other programs…Read more.
The Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation today announced new leadership, with the appointment of Dr. Margaret Zeigler as Interim President, and an expanded mission. The organization, which has focused on increasing the profile and funding of competitive agricultural research in the U.S., will now work to expand the overall investment in agricultural research around the world, a key solution to the changing climate and the growing hunger crisis.
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In an opinion piece that ran in the New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning biologist Philip Sharp and Alan Leshner, CEO Emeritus of American Association for the Advancement of Science, discuss the lack of publicly funded scientific research focusing on agriculture and food production.
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The House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations approved a $25 million addition for the USDA’s AFRI program for fiscal year 2017. If this funding level holds throughout the federal budget process, AFRI will receive a 15 percent increase in the past two fiscal years.
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