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FFAR Highlights Food and Agriculture Innovation At Inaugural Foster Our Future Event
WASHINGTON (February 5, 2019) – The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) today hosted its inaugural event, Foster Our Future, a first-of-its-kind research exhibition and discussion forum. The event showcased recent advances in food and agriculture science. An estimated 400 agricultural leaders, farmers, and politicians joined participants from academia, industry, and non-profit
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FFAR Launches International Consortium for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Agriculture
ICASA accelerates innovation and knowledge across the livestock supply chain WASHINGTON (January 30, 2019) – The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) today launched the International Consortium for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Agriculture (ICASA), a public-private partnership to advance research on antimicrobial stewardship in animal agriculture and improve animal health
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Join us in congratulating Elizabeth Ainsworth
Elizabeth Ainsworth, USDA Agricultural Research Service, will receive the 2019 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences. How will the world eat in the face of climate change and other threats? That question dominates Ainsworth’s pioneering research, which has helped to reveal how man-made atmospheric changes will affect the physiology
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