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

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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. Although free seed distribution programs were immensely popular among farmers, emerging private seed breeders and horticulturalists lobbied the federal government to end the program in 1924. Source: Philip H.

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Policy News: September 12, 2022

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Lawmakers are working to pass a short-term spending package to keep the government open in October. Congress appears likely to pass a short-term spending measure keeping the government funded through Dec. The current government fiscal year ends Sept. biotechnology industry during a trip to Boston, MA. Executive Branch.

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ESA Policy News: January 9, 2023

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trillion government spending bill for fiscal year (FY) 2023 Dec. 29, keeping the government funded through the end of September 2023 and providing increases to most ecologically relevant science agencies. Appropriators increase the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget $6.2 President Joe Biden signed a $1.7

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Special Policy News #6: The Transition

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Todd Young’s (R-IN) Endless Frontiers Act from the last Congress, Biden endorses investing $50 billion to create a new technology directorate in the National Science Foundation to fund research on topics like semiconductors and advanced computing, advanced communications technology, advanced energy technologies and biotechnology.

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Policy News: July 27, 2021

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billion for investments in advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, clean energy technology, microelectronics and semiconductors, quantum information science and the U.S. This includes a 39% increase for climate research and a 29% increase for the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.

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ESA Policy News: February 20, 2023

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Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) will be the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research and Biotechnology. The report notes that rates of atmospheric warming and ocean acidification in the Arctic may be as much as three to four times faster than the global average. Other recommendations include increasing U.S.

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ESA Policy News: January 23, 2023

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The Commerce, Justice and Science subcommittee drafts the bill that funds the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, among other agencies. Rogers is a long-time appropriator who previously served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. What we say and how we say it matters.

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