Agricultural science
UVM Food Systems Research Center gets $11M in federal funds

Jun. 19, 2021 04:01 PM EDT
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The University of Vermont Food Systems Research Center is getting $11 million in federal funding to support its work researching the...

Adrian Polansky, a farmer and former executive director of the USDA’s Farm Service Agency office in Kansas during the Obama administration, stops for a photo while touring his seed processing plant near Belleville, Kan., Friday, March 5, 2021. More than a year after two U.S. Department of Agriculture research agencies were moved from the nation’s capital to Kansas City, they remain critically understaffed and some farmers are less confident in the work they produce. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
USDA relocations curtail ag research, farmer confidence

By Roxana Hegeman Mar. 06, 2021 10:12 AM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2019 file photo, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, the winner of the 2017 World Food Prize, speaks at U.N. headquarters. A group of 24 scientists, economists, researchers and other past winners of the World Food Prize, including Adesina, sent a letter Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, to President Joe Biden asking him to focus on alleviating global hunger, poverty and malnutrition. The World Food Prize Foundation released the letter that describes United States involvement in battling global hunger as foundational. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)
World Food Prize laureates ask Biden to elevate hunger

By David Pitt Feb. 23, 2021 10:40 AM EST

FILE - This Nov. 15, 1995 file photo shows then Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Administrator David Kessler testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Joe Biden has picked Kessler to lead vaccine science in his drive to put 100 million shots into the arms of Americans in his administration's first 100 days and stem the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin)
Biden taps former FDA chief Kessler to lead vaccine science

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar And Matthew Perrone Jan. 15, 2021 08:02 AM EST