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National Research Initiative: A Vital Competitive Grants Program in Food, Fiber, and Natural-Resources Research (Compass Series) by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on an Evaluation of the US Department of Agriculture National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program.; National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Our nation faces daunting challenges to its food and fiber system and to the condition of our natural resources in the coming decades. Rapid increases in world population and the pressure on resources generated by increasing per capita consumption as a result of increasing per capita income challenge the very basis of our standard of living”"our food, fiber, and natural-resource base. As the nation faces the challenges, new technologies and new information systems are changing the face of biologic research. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has traditionally been the nation's primary public research engine in food, fiber, and natural resources. The National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRI) is a small part of that USDA research effort, but it accounts for a substantial portion of the nation's merit-based peer-reviewed fundamental research efforts in food, fiber, and natural resources. In 1997, USDA asked the National Research Council Board on Agriculture (now the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources) to conduct an independent assessment of the NRI program. Specifically, USDA asked the Research Council to: perform a retrospective assessment of the qua
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- Author
- National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on an Evaluation of the US Department of Agriculture National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program.; National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Publisher
- National Academies Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780309592277
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Technology, Agriculture
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