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Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research By 2030 by
For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food domestically and provide a trade surplus in bulk and high-value agricultural commodities and foods. Today, the U.S. food and agricultural enterprise faces formidable challenges that will test its long-term sustainability, competitiveness, and resilience. On its current path, future productivity in the U.S. agricultural system is likely to come with trade-offs. The success of agriculture is tied to natural systems, and these systems are showing signs of stress, even more so with the change in climate. More than a third of the food produced is unconsumed, an unacceptable loss of food and nutrients at a time of heightened global food demand. Increased food animal production to meet greater demand will generate more greenhouse gas emissions and excess animal waste. The U.S. food supply is generally secure, but is not immune to the costly and deadly shocks of continuing outbreaks of food-borne illness or to the constant threat of pests and pathogens to crops, livestock, and poultry. U.S. farmers and producers are at the front lines and will need more tools to manage the pressures they face. Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030 identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. This report explores the availability of relatively new scientific developments across all disciplines that could accelerate progress toward these goals. It identifies the most promising scientific breakthroughs that could have the greatest positive impact on food and agriculture, and that are possible to achieve in the next decade (by 2030).
ISBN: 9780309473927Publication Date: 2019-04-21
Agricultural Policy, Appropriations and Discretionary Spending by
The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies appropriations bill provides funding for a wide array of Federal programs, mostly in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). These programs include agricultural research, education, and extension activities; natural resources conservation programs; farm income and support programs; marketing and inspection activities; domestic food assistance programs; rural housing, economic and community development, and telecommunication and electrification assistance; and various export and international activities of the USDA. Agriculture appropriations include both mandatory and discretionary spending. Discretionary amounts, though, are the primary focus during the bills development. This book provides information on the 2018 and 2019 discretionary spending as well as a copy of the 2019 Agriculture appropriations act.
ISBN: 9781536152159Publication Date: 2019-03-13
Agricultural Sustainability by
Agricultural Sustainability starts with an overview of agriculturalsustainability and the factors influencing the agricultural sustainability.As agricultural sustainability is all about understandingecosystem services and can be seen as a study of relation betweenorganisms and their respective environment, this text hasbeen written to cover all these aspects. Further, sustainability inpoultry and aquaculture has been described to broaden the research and potential ofagricultural sustainability in arid and semi-arid areas has also been discussed.
ISBN: 9781773617862Publication Date: 2019-01-30
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Encyclopedia of Agricultural Science - A-D by
The Encyclopedia of Agricultural Science is the first comprehensive reference that covers the wide variety of disciplines which comprise the field of agricultural science. The four-volume set provides in-depth treatments of specialized topics which are comprehensible to high school and undergraduate students, yet are also beneficial to researchers and specialists. Articles are arranged alphabetically and include featured topics in animal, plant, range, and soilscience; food processing, storage, and distribution; agricultural economics, education, engineering, policy; pest management; rural sociology; water resources, and much more.
ISBN: 0122266706Publication Date: 1994-12-23
Dictionary of Agriculture by
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
ISBN: 1579580769Publication Date: 1998-09-01
