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How farmers and seaweed can help tackle ocean pollution

Environmental News Bits

Just ask Luis Lombana, CEO of Ficosterra, a Spanish marine biotechnology company that makes fertilizers from an unexpected source: seaweed. Read the full story at GreenBiz. Farmers as a group don’t typically embrace change. Read more →

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

They underpin what it is to feel at home; what it means to sense one’s lineage through food in a single place or across oceans. USDA distributed seeds to farmers for free, encouraging growers to save and share seed and to experiment with any crop that could become economically important to US agriculture. Source: Philip H.

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Frontiers eBook releases: June 2021

Frontiers

Changing Arctic Ocean Edited by Roxana Suehring; Penelope Kate Lindeque; Kirsty C. Shape the future of your field — and publish your own eBook — by editing a Special Issue around your research area. Learn more about Research Topics or submit your suggestion. Kok; Cheng-Chia Yu; Jorge A.R.

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Policy News: September 12, 2022

ESA

biotechnology industry during a trip to Boston, MA. The executive order will include training programs for biotechnology workers and is expected to cover sectors from pharmaceuticals to biofuels and agricultural food supplies. Multiorganization Letter in Support of Appropriations for Agricultural Research (July 13, 2022).

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Biden administration requests 16% increase in domestic spending, $4 billion for climate and sustainability research

ESA

This directorate would work to expedite technology development areas including artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, disaster response and resilience, quantum information systems, robotics, advanced communications technologies, biotechnology and cybersecurity. Department of Agriculture. View the hearing here.

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ESA Policy News: January 9, 2023

ESA

In the Agriculture Department, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture receives a nearly 4% increase to $1.7 The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative receives $455 million, a 2.25% increase. The Agricultural Research Service is funded at $1.818 billion, a 3.27% increase. million, a $94.5 million increase.

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ESA Policy News: February 20, 2023

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Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and John Hoeven (R-ND) will lead the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee and Sens. House Agriculture Committee: Ranking Member David Scott (D-GA) announced the Democratic leadership of the committee. The House and Senate Agriculture committees are working to produce the 2023 Farm Bill this year.

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