Release: Briefing Addresses Building Agricultural Resilience for Future Generations
For Immediate Release
Contact: Laura Zaks
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net
Release: Briefing Addresses Building Agricultural Resilience for Future Generations
Farmer/Researcher Panel Encourages Increasing Public Investments in Ag Research
Washington, DC, February 28, 2023 – Yesterday, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), Union of Concerned Scientists, Carbon180, and the Breakthrough Institute hosted a joint briefing on how public funding for agricultural research and development (R&D) has the potential to improve sustainability and build farmer and rancher resilience in the face of increasing food system disruptions caused by climate change. Despite its proven economic and environmental benefits, public investment in agricultural research has stagnated. Adjusted for inflation, annual public agricultural R&D investments in the U.S. have declined by about one-third since peaking in 2002.
Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-CA 19), and Representative Jim Baird (R-IN 4), co-chairs of the House Agriculture Research …