Sentences with phrase «served as agriculture»

Hata was first elected as a House of Representatives member from Nagano prefecture in 1969 and served as agriculture minister, finance minister and foreign minister between 1988 and 1994.

Trump intends to nominate former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to serve as agriculture secretary, according to a person familiar with the decision but not authorized to speak publicly before it is announced.

Ritchie said she agreed to become deputy vice chairwoman of the Health Committee but did not ask for extra money or know she would receive a higher stipend than she would from serving as agriculture committee chairwoman.

Not exact matches

Before moving to Texas this summer to head up the Texas Farm Service Agency, Judy Canales served as the Administrator for Rural Business Development and Cooperative Programs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

WASHINGTON — Fervently proclaiming that he was actually the one responsible for the scandal involving the adult film actress, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue reportedly stated Thursday, in a desperate attempt to serve as President Trump's fall guy, that he was the one who slept with Stormy Daniels.

Most recently, Carrie served as Director of Business Development at Farmland LP, a sustainable agriculture impact investment fund.

He served 11 years as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Bankers Association and prior to that he spent 25 years in the federal public service and was Deputy Minister of Labour, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada.

Ezra Benson served as Secretary of Agriculture under Dwight Eisenhower and later became president of the church.

Mirosal, you might want to take a tour down history lane... Ezra Taft Benson, a sitting member of the Mormon Quorum of Apostles, served in the Eisenhower Admin as Secretary of Agriculture... no problems way back then with either his service as a Cabinet Secretary OR as a leader in his church.

Nate previously served as certification coordinator for Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA)'s organic certification program.

It serves as an important confluence for all organic stakeholders for the promotion of trade, sharing information and knowledge about organic agriculture and agribusiness.

He was on the House Agriculture and Forest Products Committee all eight years, and served the last four as ranking member.

Judith has been involved as an advocate for family farmers for many years and serves as an advisor or on the Board of several organizations (Community Alliance with Family Farmers, California Agriculture Climate Action Network, State of California Environmental Farming Science Advisory Panel and the Capay Valley Volunteer Fire Department).

Renee has served on the boards of Illinois Environmental Council; the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (NCR SARE) Administrative Council, and, prior to joining the OEFFA staff, started an organizational chapter and served as its representative to OEFFA's board.

She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Restaurant Association, Council of State Restaurant Associations, International Society of Hotel Association Executives, VISIT FLORIDA, Florida State University College of Business Board of Governors, Florida TaxWatch and the Florida Agriculture Center and Horse Park.

Serving as a forum for the discussion and analysis of the contemporary situation for organic agriculture in Latin America, the Caribbean and the world

Earlier this year, she was selected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to serve as a member of the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC) for Trade in Processed Foods.

Previous to the CSWA and Fetzer positions, Thrupp served as Life Scientist & Policy Specialist at U.S. EPA Region 9, consultant to both Robert Mondavi Winery and the Funders Agricultural Working Group, and Director of Sustainable Agriculture at World Resources Institute.

Peter Laufer: Yes, except in the environment that we have and the type capitalism we practice the regulatory agency in question which is the USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture; the National Organic Program, the NOP, is serving business at least as much as it's servicing the rest of us and maybe more and it's the position of the USDA that if companies like Trader Joe's or others decide that the origin of their products is a proprietary business tool, then they are successfully able to hide behind that claim and not tell you where something you're going to buy and eat came from.

Prior to his appointment at USDA, he served as Director of Marketing and Development at the New Mexico Department of Agriculture.

And let's not even go into the question of whether it is wise, as was suggested by the Department of Agriculture, that school lunches require at least half of the breads served each week be from whole grains.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue released a proclamation May 1 that praised the nation's schools for serving nutritious meals and committed to «provide significant technical assistance to schools as they continue to develop menus that are healthy and appealing to students,» but the statement also announced plans to undermine key standards that support... Read More

But the U.S. Department of Agriculture is actually complicit in the trend toward processed junk served as food in school.

A few hours later, SNA put out a press release praising the appropriators but calling on the Agriculture Department to go further by not implementing any additional reductions in salt, not requiring 100 percent whole - wheat items, getting rid of the requirement for fruit and vegetable servings at every meal, and allowing any food item permitted to be served as part of a reimbursable meal to be sold at any time in vending machines.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue released a proclamation May 1 that praised the nation's schools for serving nutritious meals and committed to «provide significant technical assistance to schools as they continue to develop menus that are healthy and appealing to students,» but the statement also announced plans to undermine key standards that support child nutrition.

March 2011 The authors of a paper published in a supplement to the Food and Nutrition Bulletinin March 2011 make a case for approaching agriculture as an ecological system serving human nutrition.

He followed in his father's footsteps whose name was Henry C. Wallace and served as the 7thSecretary of Agriculture, under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.

Arsenic (As) exposure from rice is of particular concern for infants and children.1 - 4 Infant rice cereal, a common first food, 5,6 may contain inorganic As concentrations exceeding the recommendation from the Codex Alimentarius Commission of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations of 200 ng / g for polished (white) rice, 4 the new European Union regulations of 100 ng / g for products aimed at infants7 (eTable 1 in the Supplement), and the proposed US Food and Drug Administration limit.8 Infants consuming only a few servings of rice cereal or other products (eg, rice snacks) per day may exceed the now - withdrawn provisional weekly tolerable intakes for As set by the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Food Additives.9, 10

The congressional candidate also told the crowd that if elected, she would seek a seat on the Agriculture Committee so that she could serve as «a voice for family farmers.»

The long delay in getting Trump's nominee for agriculture secretary, former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue (R), confirmed means that Sam Clovis, who was a Trump campaign adviser, and transition team leader Brian Klippenstein continue to serve as the agency's top political appointees.

Together, we have completed an ambitious farmland protection plan that is being put into action, and we will be embarking on our Agriculture - Friendly Oneida County Initiative that will serve as a guide to assist municipalities and businesses in navigating zoning, regulations, planning and laws that will allow ag - business to expand.

He served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and between 1929 and 1930.

While serving as Governor of the old Bendel State, Dr. Ogbemudia initiated improvements in the areas of sports, urban development, education, public transportation, housing, commerce and agriculture.

Before that, she served as the Director of Economics for the New York State Office of the Attorney General and held positions at the US Federal Communication Commission, the US Department of Agriculture, and a private economic consulting firm.

Sonny Perdue, a Republican who is awaiting confirmation to serve as Trump's agriculture secretary, was a target of frequent criticism that he was failing to honor his own ethics pledge during his eight years as governor of Georgia.

Whilst a Member of Parliament, he served as Joint Under Secretary of State for Scotland from 1966 - 70 and as Minister of State for Agriculture from 1974 - 79.

Morton later served as U.S. Agriculture Secretary under President Grover Cleveland.

He served in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture as Assistant Director before he became MP.

In 1696 Harley advocated the founding of a Land Bank that would serve the agriculture interest as the Bank of England served the monied interest.

In 1984, Roberts became the first woman in the United States to serve as an Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture.

«I have been honored by several calls from agriculture leaders, but I am very happy spending time with my family and business associates,» said Alexander, who served as Senate budget chair.

He also served as a minister for agriculture, fisheries and food, the north - east, and work and pensions.

The last Democrat to represent Binghamton in the Senate took over the chair of the agriculture committee after Sen. Franklin Roosevelt vacated the position to begin serving as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, four years before the United States entered World War I.

The Commissioners of Agriculture & Markets, Children & Family Services, Education, Temporary & Disability Assistance, and Health, as well as the Director of Farmers Markets at Empire State Development Corporation and the Director of the State Office for the Aging will also serve ex officio.

Before becoming an MP in 2001, he was a special adviser in the agriculture department when the Tories were in government and later served as political secretary to William Hague.

«If we think about their role in agriculture production and as people who are maintaining clean water for the city and the aquifer that serves the city, then we can think about how we support them and their livelihood in a completely different way,» she said.

Bruce Babbitt, who as governor signed Arizona's 1980 groundwater act and later served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior, attributes the state's retreat on groundwater conservation to the powerful agriculture and development lobbies.

The study by Mann, now an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi, and Serrano, a Virginia Cooperative Extension specialist who serves as Family Nutrition Program Project director and professor in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was recently published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the US National Institute of Food and Agriculture, says there are «numerous challenges, including lack of knowledge about the basic biology of many species that potentially may serve as food».

The technique, dubbed «aquaponics,» integrates fish farming and hydroponic agriculture in a sort of closed, symbiotic loop — the fish serve as fertilizer factories, the plants as water purifiers.