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Supporting Climate-Friendly Agriculture R&D

MCLI Recommendation: “Congress should at a minimum restore the USDA’s research funding to its prior share of the agency’s budget.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress should at a minimum double the extension system’s budget to $900 million, designating the additional funds for climate change-related education, programming, and services.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress should dramatically increase the annual budget for the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE), while also specifically appropriating funds for SARE to use to support the development of carbon farming.”

LPDD Recommendation: “USDA should design research to advance objectives other than mitigation, such as crop productivity or food safety, to bolster, and work in conjunction with, climate-friendly systems.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Agricultural Research Service and NIFA should prioritize funding for research into agroecology.”

LPDD Recommendation: “State governments should develop and expand funding for robust research, education, and technical assistance programs designed to spread climate-friendly practices.”

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Resource Congress

Proposed Agriculture Resilience Act (2020)

The proposed Agriculture Resilience Act of 2020 would set a target of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. agriculture by the year 2040. It would pursue this target by: Increasing Resear...
Resource Congress

Report, A Global Vision and Strategy for Organic Farming and Research

The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement’s 2016 report describes a 17‐point action plan to advance organic agriculture through research, development, innovation and technology tran...
Resource Congress

Report, Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration.

This 2019 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines a research agenda for carbon sequestration, including a chapter on changes in agricultural practices that e...
Example Executive Branch

National Institute of Food and Agriculture research funding

Little NIFA funding currently goes to climate. E.g., of $375 million sought in President Obama’s 2016 Budget, only $15 million was related to climate, and none of that was to go towards mitigation eff...
Resource Congress

Proposed Advancing Research on Agricultural Climate Impacts Act

The 2023 proposed Advancing Research on Agricultural Climate Impacts (ARACI) Act addresses a lack of standardized methodologies for soil carbon measurement and fragmented data collection which make ca...
Example Executive Branch

Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research was established by the 2014 Farm Bill and has environmental concerns within its mandate. Its “Healthy Soils, Thriving Farms” Initiative is likely to be...
Resource Executive Branch

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program

The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program provides funding for on-farm research and efforts to increase knowledge about sustainable agricultural practices among farmers and agricultur...
Example States and State Governments

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University was established in 1987 to conduct research designed to reduce the environmental harms of agriculture and to help promulgate sus...
Example Executive Branch

Agricultural Research Service funding

About 20% of ARS’ FY 2017 research budget was allocated to environmental research, which includes research on climate change. LPDD recommends the agency increase its support for research that advances...