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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. 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

ESA

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. In this issue: Congress. Executive Branch. International. Joe Manchin (D-WV).

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ESA Policy News: January 9, 2023

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Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) named the ranking member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee in the 118th Congress. 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.

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Special Policy News #6: The Transition

ESA

2 trillion plan includes $50 billion to create a new technology directorate for NSF. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy forms Interagency Task Force on Scientific Integrity. . There is $180 billion pegged overall in the plan for investment in research and development and “technologies of the future.”.

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Policy News: July 27, 2021

ESA

This includes research about atmospheric composition, water and carbon cycles, computational modeling of climate systems, renewable energy technologies, materials sciences, and social, behavior and economic research on human responses to climate change. Most of these areas are named as “key technology focus areas” in the USICA.

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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. Mike Collins (R-GA) will chair the Research and Technology Subcommittee and Rep. House Agriculture Committee: Ranking Member David Scott (D-GA) announced the Democratic leadership of the committee. Freshman Rep.

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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. Among other US-China issues, the committee is expected to address US-China science and technology collaboration and research security.

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