Can USDA’s NIFA be ag’s NIH?
October 27th, 2009
News from TheScientist.com Posted by Bob Grant
Historically short-shrifted by federal funding bodies, academic agricultural research was recently promised redemption: a federal funding agency of its very own that will award competitive grants in a fashion similar to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). But will the new agency, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), be able to put public-sector agricultural science on an equal footing with biomedical research? Read more
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