Sentences with phrase «fund agricultural research»

He also mentioned helping to fund agricultural research at Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva.

EU - AgriNet is the E.U. - funded agricultural research portal, giving links to EC and international programmes, events, and a «project showcase.»

This support can take the form of more reliable and localised weather forecasts, subsidies for inputs, well - trained extension workers, better facilities for livestock health, well - funded agricultural research, and improved rural infrastructure such as road networks.

Not exact matches

The agri - analytics startup, which was incubated at IIT - Kharagpur, received seed funds and acceleration from a-IDEA, managed by National Academy of Agricultural Research Management in Hyderabad.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

The Commission also supports and funds university level research to help improve the overall health and cultivation of potatoes, as well as to identify agricultural best practices.

«Since 2002, Mitloehner has received $ 5 million in research funding, with 5 percent of the total from agricultural commodities groups, such as beef producers.»

The Brewers Association (BA) recently announced an agreement with United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA - ARS) to fund public hop breeding program within the USDA system.

Also represented at the meeting are the Myanmar Department of Rice Research, Myanmar Rice Federation, Yezin Agriculture University, Livelihood and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT), Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The majority of our world's agricultural research funding is dedicated to increasing food production, yet we continually overlook the causal factors of insufficient food supply, emanating from ineffective post-harvest handling and preservation practices.

Steve Censky has been a strong supporter and vocal advocate throughout his career for agricultural biotech, expanding trade, and increased funding for agriculture research.»

Speakers I found especially engaging included: Louise Fresco, who presented the keynote on future trends in food including tailored nutrition and food printing and the simultaneous challenge of sufficient calories in the developing world, and adequate nutrition in the developed world; and Simon Costa who developed and distributed a micro hermetic silo for grain storage reminding us that funding is mainly directed towards researching increased agricultural production while post-harvest losses go unaddressed.

The Brewers Association has signed an agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA - ARS) to fund public hop breeding for the purpose of developing and releasing disease resistant aroma hop cultivars into the public domain, in support of hop growing efforts throughout the U.S..

The key takeaway was the range of opportunities available to get involved in agricultural research through the Crawford Fund and other relevant stakeholders.

Attendance at the Crawford fund conference largely revived my faith in international agricultural research and allowed me to harvest more inspiration, wisdom and knowledge — three key ingredients needed to survive the daily grind of a PhD.

I would like to express my thanks to the Crawford Fund team and to CQ University for the opportunity to attend this renowned conference, and to learn more about international agricultural research and the significant food security issues that our world is currently facing.

The facility, which is being built at the headquarters of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, Laguna, is funded by the Australian government through the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research or ACIAR, a major partner of IRRI.

Bago City, Myanmar (10 October 2017)-- An Australian - funded five - year research project led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Myanmar is making a lasting impact on improving local rice farmers» ability to adapt to agricultural challenges and respond to market opporresearch project led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Myanmar is making a lasting impact on improving local rice farmers» ability to adapt to agricultural challenges and respond to market opporResearch Institute (IRRI) in Myanmar is making a lasting impact on improving local rice farmers» ability to adapt to agricultural challenges and respond to market opportunities

The Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) was created in 1997 with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to provide a venue for linkages among national agricultural research and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the privateResearch Consortium (IRRC) was created in 1997 with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to provide a venue for linkages among national agricultural research and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the privateresearch and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector.

Andrew Borrell receives funding from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and is an associate investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

In fact McCain is world renowned as a funder of agricultural research and provider of leading - edge agronomic advice.

They will also discuss the progress made by the FVIAC's five Working Groups, which cover the following topics: 1) Ports of Entry Inspection Delays, 2) Research and Grant Funding, 3) Agricultural Labor, 4) Education and Branding, and 5) Food Safety.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commagricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European CommAgricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European CommAgricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Announces Up to $ 10 Million in Grant Funding to Advance Research and Provide Resources to Future Processing Businesses Legislation Clarifies Status of Industrial Hemp as An Agricultural Commodity in the State Establishes Working Group to Guide Research, Support Industry Development and Advise Policy and Program Changes Launches One - Stop Shop, Hotline and Webpage to Help Producers and Processors Navigate Industry Regulations and Requirements

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

Biomedical research and agricultural research did not find favor with the new government: Funding for these areas will remain at 2008 levels.

Nelson and his colleagues, working with funding from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, estimated global agricultural impacts by pairing IFPRI's own economic models for crop yields with climate models for precipitation and temperature from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

The Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group of Wageningen University & Research together with the Department of Geophysics and Meteorology of Bogor Agricultural University IPB, Indonesia, was investigating the link between drought and wildfires, as part of a joint Indonesian - Dutch project funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Funding for such agricultural research in general has been dwindling in recent years, according to the Washington, D.C. — based International Food Policy Research Inresearch in general has been dwindling in recent years, according to the Washington, D.C. — based International Food Policy Research InResearch Institute.

In its $ 44 billion request for supplemental appropriations to respond to this year's storms and wildfires, the administration proposed to eliminate all $ 212 million in funding for improvements to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) buildings and facilities, as well as $ 1.4 billion from various conservation programs.

Her trip to the Middle East was partly funded by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, based in Aleppo, Syria

AAAS has commended the Obama administration for proposing to increase funding for agricultural research, a step specialists consider essential for helping to provide more and better food sources for a growing world population.

«The decisions we make now about funding for agricultural research will have implications for a number of malnourished people in 2050,» Hertel said.

Even though this plan received full approval from the FAO, it was rejected at a meeting in Delhi of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, the informal group of donors that funds the IARCs.

«He could be a breath of fresh air that the REE mission area really needs,» Glasener says, noting Shah's familiarity with the medical community, which has been far more successful than agricultural research at boosting federal funds.

Now new research funded by the NH Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) at the University of New Hampshire College of Life Sciences and Agriculture indicates that lakes in New England and the Adirondack Mountains are recovering rapidly from the effects of acid rain.

After decades of flat funding, agricultural research seems to have caught the attention of U.S. policymakers, as Congress gave a 30 % boost to the main competitive grants program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), raising it to $ 263 million for 2010.

But its draft of the Farm Bill, which sets food and agricultural policy and funding, is less generous: The $ 348 million of research appropriated over 5 years by the 2008 Farm Bill would be cut to $ 200 million in the new legislation.

Working under tight budget constraints, a Senate committee has proposed chartering a foundation that would raise funds to support agricultural research.

That means «there has been a 15 % increase for AFRI over the past 2 years,» says Thomas Grumbly, president of the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation in Arlington, Virginia, which advocates for farm science funding.

Funding for this research was provided by The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Carl Tryggers Fouresearch was provided by The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Carl Tryggers FouResearch Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Carl Tryggers Foundation.

Supported by a grant (R01 ES08388) from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and in part by grants from the NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of Rochester (ES01247), the Cornell University Bronfenbrenner Life Course Institute in the College of Human Ecology, the Strong Memorial Hospital Children's Research Center, and a joint research and extension program funded by the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cornell Cooperative ExResearch Center, and a joint research and extension program funded by the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cornell Cooperative Exresearch and extension program funded by the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cornell Cooperative Extension.

The report outlines specific suggestions for researchers and research funders, United States regulators and policymakers, and international organizations, that could help advance this promising new scientific approach for combatting insect borne human disease and insect agricultural pests while ensuring environmental safety and societal issues are addressed.

With generous funding from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) over the last 15 years, Afghanistan research organizations and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have helped supply Afghan farmers with improved varieties and farming practices to boost production of maize anResearch (ACIAR) over the last 15 years, Afghanistan research organizations and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have helped supply Afghan farmers with improved varieties and farming practices to boost production of maize anresearch organizations and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have helped supply Afghan farmers with improved varieties and farming practices to boost production of maize and wheat.

I am very much delighted and happy to know that the Department of Crop Botany of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University is implementing a sub-project entitled «Establishment of Digital Herbarium and Herbal Museum for Improving Academic and Research Capability in Crop Botany» with the financial assistance from Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) of Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) under the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGCB) supported by the World Bank.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commagricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European CommAgricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European CommAgricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Of the public tax dollars spent on agricultural research, organic receives less than one percent of the funding.1 The first endowed chair went to the University of Wisconsin - Madison and agronomy professor William F. Tracy for his work on organic corn breeding.

«Crucial to IRRI's receiving the Green Leaf Award is the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), which funded the investments required in constructing the PGF,» said Dr. Gururaj Guddappa Kulkarni, Senior Scientist and PGF Supervisor at IRRI.

Funding: This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program 2010CB530200 to CC), the Bingtuan Twelve Five - Year Special Projects (2012BB051 to CC), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 31201800 and 31260534 to SH), and Utah Multidisciplinary Arrhythmia Consortium and Utah Agricultural Experimental Station (project1100 to IP).