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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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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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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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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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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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Special Policy News #6: The Transition

ESA

The plan requests that Congress fund wildfire protection and coastal resilience projects, support climate-smart agriculture and major land and water restoration projects like those in the Everglades and the Great Lakes. Biden’s plan calls for protecting and restoring nature-based infrastructure including forests and wetlands.

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Policy News: July 27, 2021

ESA

The full House expects to vote soon on ten spending bills for fiscal year (FY) 2022, including bills funding the Department of the Interior, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Agriculture and more this week. This includes a 39% increase for climate research and a 29% increase for the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.

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