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New U.S. Agricultural Research Institute Launched; Global Food Aid Examined
The Obama administration recently launched the National Institute of Food (NIFA), "a new agricultural research institute ... but farm lobbyists and others warned that its success depends on whether Congress agrees to substantially increase funding for farm research," Government Executive reports. Slumping agricultural research led Congress to create the institute "in the 2008 farm bill in hopes of giving a farm agency the same stature as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation," the publication writes.
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