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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. This represents a dramatic increase of roughly 350 percent, beyond the rate of inflation, following the biotechnology merger-mania and the co-opting of the seed industry.” Source: Philip H.

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Policy News: September 12, 2022

ESA

Revesz is a former dean and current professor at New York University’s School of Law and the founder of the Institute for Policy Integrity, an environmental think tank. biotechnology industry during a trip to Boston, MA. Australia’s first climate law since 2011 seals green comeback – The Straits Times. ‘I 2 – Associated Press.

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Policy News: July 27, 2021

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Maine law banning PFAS takes effect. 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 bill is also included in the Oceans Based Climate Solutions Act ( H.R.

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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 went wrong? –

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