SoAR Foundation Report Highlights Groundbreaking Food Safety Research at U.S. Institutions
Today, eleven U.S. institutions have joined the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation in an effort to gain more federal support of food and agriculture science. Along with this announcement comes a new report--Retaking the Field—Empowering Agricultural Sciences for Health--that explores the success of research projects funded by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), the flagship competitive grants program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
“Scientists have made tremendous strides in keeping our food safe and nutritious,” says Thomas Grumbly, SoAR’s president. “But the federal investment in food science has remained flat as the number of threats to our food system continues to climb. The 2018 Farm Bill will set agricultural funding priorities for the next five years. We all need research to be at the top of this agenda.”