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About the Subcommittees
Three subcommittees, the Subcommittee on Environmental Quality and
Natural Resources, the Subcommittee on Food and Health, and the Subcommittee
on Economic and Social Development in a Global Context, generated white
papers that provided input into the synthesis committee's final report. Members
of the subcommittees also were extremely helpful in providing the synthesis com-
mittee with other data and written materials throughout the study.
Although sections of the white papers and other materials authored by sub-
committee members were used in the preparation of this report, the report as a
whole represents a consensus of the synthesis committee only.
Subcommittee on Environmental Quality and Natural Resources
G. Philip Robertson, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State
University, Hickory Corner, MI, Chair
Dr. Robertson has been a professor of crop and soil sciences at Michigan
State University since 1985 and director of the National Science Foundation
(NSF) Long-Term Ecological Research Program in Agricultural Ecology at the
W.K. Kellogg Biological Station since 1988. His research interests include
nitrogen biogeochemistry and in particular nitrogen conservation in field-crop
ecosystems, biogenic sources of atmospheric trace-gas fluxes, and the functional
significance of soil microbial diversity. Dr. Robertson has been a postdoctoral
fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1980-1981) and a sabbatical
scholar at Cooperative Research Centres in Adelaide (1993-1994) and Brisbane
(2001-2002), Australia. His service includes memberships on various grant panels
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at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and NSF and directorship of the
USDA Fund for Rural America Environment Program in 1997-1998. Dr. Robertson
also served on the National Research Council Committee on an Evaluation of the
US Department of Agriculture National Research Initiative Competitive Grants
Program (1998-19991. He received a BA from Hampshire College and a PhD in
ecology and evolutionary biology from Indiana University.
Janet C. Broome, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
Program, University of California, Davis, CA
Dr. Broome is the associate director of the University of California's state-
wide Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (UC SAREP)
based in Davis. She works with the director to provide leadership and adminis-
trative support for the first sustainable-agriculture program at a land-grant uni-
versity. She leads the agricultural-chemical use-risk reduction program and the
Biologically Integrated Farming Systems (BIFS) competitive-grants program, and
she is the lead scientist for a $1 million grants program for the development of
alternatives to methyl bromide. She conducts research in ecologically based pest
management, working in weather-driven disease-forecasting models. In addition,
working with the UC integrated pest management project, she developed a plant-
disease model database for the PestCast statewide weather-monitoring and
disease-forecasting network. Dr. Broome served as an environmental research
scientist for the California Environmental Protection Agency Department of
Pesticide Regulation in 1994-1997. She has provided expert testimony to the
California state legislature on the implementation of the Food Quality Protection
Act. Dr. Broome has broad expertise in ecology, epidemiology and control of
fungal plant pathogens, sustainable viticulture, integrated farming systems, and
ecologic pest management. She also has extensive understanding of pesticide-
related regulatory issues. Dr. Broome received a BA in biologic sciences from
Swarthmore College and a PhD in plant pathology from the University of Cali-
fornia, Davis.
Elizabeth Chornesky, The Nature Conservancy, Santa Cruz, CAT
See About the Authors.
Jane Frankenberger, Department of Agricultural and Biological
Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Dr. Frankenberger is associate professor in the Department of Agricultural
and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. She leads statewide extension
* Synthesis Committee member.
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and research programs in soil and water engineering, watershed assessment and
management, geographic information systems, agricultural drainage, wellhead
protection, and watershed modeling. Dr. Frankenberger has also worked in inter-
national development in Senegal (1984-1990) and the Democratic Republic of
Congo (1979-1982~. Dr. Frankenberger received a BA in physics from St. Olaf
College, an MS in agricultural engineering from the University of Minnesota, and
a PhD in agricultural and biologic engineering from Cornell University.
Paul Johnson, Oneota Slopes Farm, Decorah, IA
Dr. Johnson and his family have owned and operated Oneota Slopes Farm
near Decorah, IA, since 1974. Their operation has involved dairy, corn, soy-
beans, hay, beef cattle, sheep, and Christmas trees. Dr. Johnson served three
terms in the Iowa State Legislature, 1984-1990, and was chief of the Soil Conser-
vation Service (now the Natural Resources Conservation Service, NRCS) at the
US Department of Agriculture from 1993 to 1997. He served as the director of
the Iowa Department of Natural Resources from 1999 to 2000. Dr. Johnson
received a BS and an MS in forestry from the University of Michigan and con-
ducted doctoral research in tropical-forest ecology in Costa Rica. He holds an
honorary doctorate from Luther College in Decorah, IA. He served as a Peace
Corps volunteer in Ghana from 1962 to 1964. Dr. Johnson served two terms on
the National Research Council Board on Agriculture (1988-1993), where he re-
viewed the National Research Council report on alternative agriculture and took
part in the development of the National Research Initiative Competitive Grants
Program. He served as an ex officio member of the Committee on Long Range
Soil and Water Conservation Policy in 1990-1993 and helped to implement many
of its recommendations while chief of NRCS.
Mark Lipson, Organic Farming Research Center, Santa Cruz, CA
Mr. Lipson is policy program director for the Organic Farming Research
Foundation. Since 1983, he has been a partner of Molino Creek Farm, a 25-acre
diversified wholesale organic-vegetable operation. He served as assistant
executive director for California Certified Organic Farmers from 1985 to 1992.
Mr. Lipson serves on the US Department of Agriculture Advisory Committee on
Agricultural Biotechnology and the Public Advisory Committee for the Univer-
sity of California Sustainable Agriculture Research Education Program. He has
participated in a discussion panel for the National Academy of Sciences work-
shop on ecologic monitoring of genetically modified crops. Mr. Lipson's 1997
publication, Searching for the O-word, analyzes the USDA Current Research
Information System for pertinence to organic farming. Mr. Lipson holds a BA in
environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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John Miranowski, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
ABOUT THE SUBCOMMITTEES
Dr. Miranowski is a professor in the Department of Economics at Iowa State
University. He served as chair of the department in 1995-2000. Dr. Miranowski
has expertise in soil conservation, natural-resource management, water quality,
land management, energy, global change, and agricultural research decision-
making. He has previously served as director of the Resources and Technology
Division of the USDA Economic Research Service (1984-19941; executive coor-
dinator of the secretary of agriculture's Policy Coordination Council and special
assistant to the deputy secretary of agriculture (1990-1991~; and Gilbert F. White
fellow at Resources for the Future (1981-19821. Dr. Miranowski headed the US
delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Joint
Working Party on Agriculture and the Environment (1993-19951. He has served
as a member of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Risk Assessment of Federal Coor-
dinating Committee on Science, Education, and Technology (1990-19921; direc-
tor of the Executive Board of the Association of Environmental and Resource
Economists (1989-19921; and director of the Executive Board of the American
Agricultural Economics Association (1987-19901. Dr. Miranowski served as a
member of the National Research Council Committee on Impact of Emerging
Agricultural Trends on Fish and Wildlife Habitat. He received a BS in agricul-
tural business from Iowa State University and an MA and PhD in economics from
Harvard University.
James Moseley, US Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC
James Moseley is owner and managing partner of Infinity Pork and AgRidge
Farms in Clarks Hill, Indiana. During his 32 years in farming, he has been
involved in numerous public-service activities. He served as the agricultural
advisor to Administrator William Reilly of the US Environmental Protection
Agency from 1989 to 1990. He was assistant secretary of agriculture from 1990
to 1992. As head of the US Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation
Service and Forest Service, he was lead negotiator on issues involving endan-
gered species, including the highly controversial spotted owl; wetlands; livestock
grazing on public lands; and policy issues related to the conservation title of the
1990 farm bill. Mr. Moseley returned to farming in 1992 and was director of
agricultural services and regulations for the state of Indiana at Purdue University
from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Moseley served on the National Research Council Board
on Agriculture and Natural Resources from 1992 to 1995. His farm operation
includes 2,800 acres of no-till corn and soybeans and 50,000 hogs. Mr. Moseley's
management portfolio includes a waste-treatment plant for separating and com-
posting waste solids, chisel plowing, and construction of wildlife habitat through
collaboration with Pheasants Forever. He is active in an initiative called Food,
Land and People, an educational program about resources and the environment.
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Mr. Moseley holds a BS in horticulture from Purdue University (1973~. He
resigned from the committee in April 2001 to become deputy secretary of the US
Department of Agriculture.
Elizabeth Owens, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO
Dr. Owens is North American co-lead for scientific affairs at the Monsanto
Company. Previously, she was team lead and manager of regulatory affairs in
biotechnology for potato and specialty crops. She is a recognized expert in pesti-
cide and biotechnology regulations. Dr. Owens's previous positions include
manager of government affairs (1995-1998) and manager of product registra-
tions (1991-1995) at ISK Biosciences Corporation, manager of regulatory affairs
and commercial development at BioTechnica International, Inc. (1986-1991),
and Program Leader and senior scientist at GTE Laboratories (1980-1986~.
Dr. Owens received a BS in food science and chemistry from the University of
Idaho, an MS in entomology from Iowa State University, and a PhD in entomol-
ogy with an integrated pest management specialization from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst.
David Pimentel, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
See About the Authors.
Lori Ann Thrupp, US Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, CA
Dr. Thrupp has broad expertise in sustainable agriculture, food and environ-
mental policy, natural-resource management, sustainable enterprise and green
marketing, pesticides and pest management, and agricultural biodiversity. She is
currently a life scientist at the US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, in
the Agriculture Initiative, which entails education, collaboration, and support to
the agriculture industry, farmer and nonprofit organizations, and universities on
agriculture-environment issues. In 1990-1999, she served as director of sustain-
able agriculture at the World Resources Institute, where she coordinated and
administered international sustainable-agriculture projects. She has served on
the faculty for the Organization of Tropical Studies in Costa Rica and was a
postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Thrupp holds a
BA from Stanford University and was a Marshall and Fulbright scholar at Sussex
University, UK, when she received her MS and PhD in development studies,
focused on agricultural development.
* Synthesis Committee member.
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Subcommittee on Economic and Social Development in a Global Context
Ray A. Goldberg, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, Chair
Dr. Goldberg is George Moffett professor of agriculture and business,
emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. His expertise is in domestic and inter-
national agribusiness management. With John H. Davis, he developed the
Agribusiness Program at Harvard Business School in 1955. From 1970 to 1997,
he was the George Moffett professor of agriculture and business and head of the
Agribusiness Program. As emeritus professor, he has chaired the Agribusiness
Senior Management Seminars at Harvard Business School and teaches a course
on agribusiness and food policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Dr. Goldberg's recent publications involve developing strategies for private,
public, and cooperative managers as they position their firms, institutions, and
government agencies in a rapidly changing global food system. He is also con-
ducting research on the major biologic, logistic, packaging, and information revo-
lutions that affect global agribusiness managers as they attempt to cope with the
volatile restructuring of major commodity systems. Dr. Goldberg is one of the
founders and the first president of the International Agribusiness Management
Association and an adviser and consultant to numerous government agencies and
private firms. Dr. Goldberg received an AB from Harvard, an MBA from the
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, and a PhD in agricultural
economics from the University of Minnesota.
Julian Alston, University of California, Davis, CA
Dr. Alston is a professor of agricultural and resources economics at the Uni-
versity of California, Davis. His expertise is in agricultural R&D and agricultural
research policy. Specifically, Dr. Alston is interested in economics of agricul-
tural markets and policy, agricultural sciences and technology, and international
agricultural economics. Before joining the University of California, he was an
agricultural economist in the Department of Agriculture in Victoria, Australia.
Dr. Alston was awarded a fellowship with the American Agricultural Economics
Association in 2000. Other awards he has received include outstanding published
research in agricultural economics from the Western Agricultural Economics
Association (1991, 1995), best article in the Review of Marketing and Agricul-
tural Economics from the Australian Agricultural Economics Society (1993), and
outstanding American Journal of Agricultural Economics article (1987~. He is
on the Editorial Board of Agribusiness: An International Journal and the Austra-
lian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He has also been an
associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Dr. Alston
received a BAgrSci from the University of Melbourne, an MAgrSci in agricul-
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tural economics from La Trobe University, and a PhD in economics from North
Carolina State University.
Christine Bruhn, University of California, Davis, CA
Dr. Bruhn is consumer food marketing specialist at the University of Califor-
nia Cooperative Extension in Davis. She studies consumer concerns about food
safety and quality, investigates consumer response to new technologies or ingre-
dients, identifies factors that influence consumer food choice, investigates diffi-
culties that the food industry may have in fulfilling consumer expectations, and
develops appropriate educational programs. Under the auspices of the Institute
of Food Technologists, Dr. Bruhn is regional food science communicator and a
member of the Food Council Advisory Committee, the Biotechnology Issues Task
Force, and the Science, Communication, and Government Relations Committee.
She is also chair-designate of the Dairy, Food, and Environmental Sanitation
Journal Management Committee at the International Association for Food Pro-
tection. Dr. Bruhn received a BS and an MS in home economics and a PhD in
consumer behavior from the University of California, Davis.
Lawrence Busch, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Dr. Busch is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Soci-
ology and director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards at Michigan
State University, East Lansing. His expertise includes development sociology,
economic development and planning, agricultural research policy, and democratic
governance. From 1988 to 1989, he was research director at the French Institute
of Scientific Research for Development and Cooperation in Paris. He has served
on Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy T5, the social-
science coordinating committee for the experiment stations; the scientific advi-
sory board for the International Center for Agronomic Research, the French
agronomic-aid agency; and the review committee for the Brazilian Agricultural
Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), the Brazilian equivalent of the US Depart-
ment of Agriculture Research, Education, and Economics mission area. Cur-
rently, Dr. Busch serves as the US Agency for International Development scien-
tific liaison officer to International Service for National Agricultural Research.
His recent publications include From Columbus to Conagra: The Globalization
of Agriculture; The Agricultural Scientific Enterprise, a System in Transition;
and "Inquiry of the Public Good: Citizen Participation in Agricultural Research."
He received a BA in history from Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, and an
MS and PhD in development sociology from Cornell University.
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Pierre Crosson, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC
ABOUT THE SUBCOMMITTEES
Dr. Crosson is a senior fellow and resident consultant in the Energy and
Natural Resources Division of Resources for the Future, where he analyzes agri-
culture and related issues of sustainability and climate-change impacts. His
expertise is in agricultural, environmental, and natural-resources policy and analy-
sis. Recent publications include An Income and Product Account Perspective on
the Sustainability of US Agriculture, Concerns for Stability: Integration of
Natural Resource and Environmental Issues in the Research Agendas of NARS,
"Future Supplies of Land and Water for World Agriculture," "Demand and
Supply: Trends in Global Agriculture," and "Natural Resource and Environmental
Accounting in U.S. Agriculture." Dr. Crosson has served on the National
Research Council Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
(1989-1991) and the National Research Council Panel for Collaborative Research
Support for the US Agency for International Development's Sustainable Agricul-
ture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Program. He has also served
as a member of the National Rural Studies Committee and of a task force of the
Council on Agricultural Science and Technology on Preparing the US Agricul-
ture for Global Climate Change and as secretary of the Association of Environ-
mental and Resource Economists. Awards that Dr. Crosson has received include
the Distinguished Service Award of the Association of Environmental and
Resource Economists and resident of the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Con-
ference Center (Bellagio, Italy). Dr. Crosson received a BA from the University
of Texas and a PhD in economics from Columbia University.
Brian Halweil, Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC
Mr. Halweil is a research associate at the Worldwatch Institute. His expertise
is in food and agriculture, from organic farming to biotechnology and from hunger
to water scarcity. Mr. Halweil began at the institute in 1997 as the John Gardner
Public Service Fellow from Stanford University. He has written editorials and
articles for WorldWatch magazine. He has contributed to The State of the World
and Vital Signs. He was a coauthor of the Environmental Alert book Beyond
Malthus: 19 Dimensions of the Population Problem and the Worldwatch paper
"Underfed and Overfed: The Global Epidemic of Malnutrition." He has traveled
extensively in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, learning indigenous
farming techniques and promoting sustainable food production. In Mexico and
Cuba, he helped to promote biointensive farming as a means to improve house-
hold food security and household income in rural areas. Mr. Halweil received a
BS in earth systems and biology from Stanford and has completed research, field-
work, and coursework at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
at the University of California, Davis.
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Fred Harrison, ,Ir., Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA
233
Dr. Harrison is currently administrator and director of the Cooperative Exten-
sion Program and interim dean of the College of Agriculture, Home Economics,
and Allied Programs at Fort Valley State University, where he has been a member
of the faculty since 1982. Earlier, he was an assistant professor of extension
education in the University of Georgia's College of Agriculture and a personnel
and staff-development specialist for the University of Georgia's Cooperative
Extension Service. Dr. Harrison has experience in extension and educational out-
reach at the county, state, national, and international levels and in the develop-
ment of effective extension; and he has thorough knowledge of higher education
and academic enterprise in the 1862 and 1890 land-grant systems. Dr. Harrison
has been a member of the National Research Council Committee on Land-Grant
Colleges of Agriculture (1993-1997) and the National Association of State Uni-
versity and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) and chairman-elect (1992-1993)
and chairman (1993-1994) of the Extension Committee on Organization and
Policy (ECOP-National). Dr. Harrison received a BS in agricultural education
from Fort Valley State College, an MEd in agricultural education from the Uni-
versity of Georgia, and a PhD in agricultural education/extension from Ohio State
University.
Carol Keiser, C-BAR Cattle Company, Inc., Carlinville, IL
Ms. Keiser has since 1985 been president of C-BAR Cattle Company, Inc.,
where she established and currently manages operations in feeding 3,000 cattle in
custom feedlots in Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, and Northern Illinois. Ms. Keiser
has experience in production agriculture and agribusiness administration. She
coordinates business operations of C-BAR Cattle Co. and Lovless Feedlot with
locations outside Illinois and Kansas. Since 1990, Ms. Keiser has also been presi-
dent of C-ARC Enterprises, Inc., where she operates and manages Central Forage
Systems, a forage marketing service for custom operators, trucking companies,
and dairy and beef customers. She has expertise in agribusiness administration,
policy development, research analysis, and market development. From 1997 to
1999, Ms. Keiser served as a member of the Strategic Planning Task Force on US
Department of Agriculture Research Facilities. She is on the boards of directors
of the Council on Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR), the Illinois Beef
Association, and Agricultural Future of America; and she was a member of the
Agricultural Advisory Council for the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and
Environmental Sciences and the External Advisory Council for the Department
of Animal Science, University of Illinois. Ms. Keiser received a BS in agricul-
ture from the University of Illinois and a BS in education from Greenville College.
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Terry L. Roe, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
ABOUT THE SUBCOMMITTEES
Dr. Roe is professor of applied economics and director of the Center for
Political Economy and co-director of the Economic Development Center at the
University of Minnesota. His research focuses on economic growth, develop-
ment, and trade. Currently funded projects include effects of agricultural trade
reform on developing countries and a World Bank project on water policy for
long-run growth in water-scarce developing countries. His recent publications
include "Growth, Lobbying and Public Goods" and "A Global Analysis of Agri-
cultural Reform in WTO Member Countries." Dr. Roe received a PhD in agricul-
tural economics from Purdue University, and he was a visiting fellow at Yale
University's Economic Growth Center in the academic year 1984-1985.
Laurian ,1. Unnevehr, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, ILL
See About the Authors.
Subcommittee on Food and Health
Susan Harlander, Consultant, St. Paul, MN, Chair
Dr. Harlander's expertise is in food-science research and development.
Dr. Harlander recently formed a consulting company on food and agricultural
biotechnology. She had held the position of vice president of biotechnology
development and Green Giant agricultural research at the Pillsbury Company.
She has also been director of dairy foods R&D at Land O' Lakes and served on
the faculty in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of
Minnesota. Dr. Harlander has extensive National Research Council experience,
having served as a member of the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,
the Committee on Food Chemicals Codex, the Committee on Opportunities in the
Nutrition and Food Sciences, the Ford Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Review
Panel on Biological Sciences, and the Panel on the Applications of Biotechnology
to Traditional Fermented Foods. Dr. Harlander is a member of the US Depart-
ment of Agriculture National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and
Economics Advisory Board and the subcommittee that oversees the Agricultural
Research Service's peer-review system. She is an active member of the Institute
of Food Technologists (IFT) and serves on the Foundation Board. She has previ-
ously served on IFT's Executive Committee and Committee on Research and was
an IFT scientific lecturer. Dr. Harlander received a BS in biology from the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and an MS in microbiology and a PhD in food
science from the University of Minnesota.
* Synthesis Committee member.
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Lester M. Crawford, ,Ir., Center for Food and Nutrition Policy,
Washington, DC
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Dr. Crawford has been director of the Center for Food and Nutrition Policy at
Georgetown University since 1997. He had been executive director of the Asso-
ciation of American Veterinary Medical Colleges and he was executive vice-
president of scientific affairs for the National Food Processors Association. He
has also been administrator of the US Department of Agriculture Food Safety
Inspection Service (1987-1991) and director of the Food and Drug Administra-
tion Center for Veterinary Medicine (1982-1985~. Dr. Crawford was a member
of the National Research Council Institute for Laboratory Animal Research
(1989-1992) and has served as a National Research Council reviewer. He is on
the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Food, and of Microbial Drug Resis-
tance, and is associate editor of Food Control. He is also vice president of the
World Association of Veterinary Hygiene, a member of the Expert Advisory
Panel on Food Safety of the World Health Organization, and a member of the
Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Crawford has been a consultant to
industry, academe, and law firms. Recent publications include Animal Drugs
and Human Health, "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy," and "Emerging Issues
in Food Safety." Dr. Crawford received a DVM from Auburn University, a PhD
in pharmacology from the University of Georgia and a DSc (Honoris Causa)
from Budapest University.
Joan R. Davenport, Washington State University, Presser, WA
Dr. Davenport is associate professor and soil scientist at the Irrigated Agri-
culture Research and Extension Center at Washington State University (WSU).
She conducts research in nutrient management, soil fertility, and management of
irrigated agricultural crops in central Washington, emphasizing site-specific man-
agement, improved production, and environmental quality. She is also working
on developing nondestructive crop-monitoring systems for early detection of
nutrient and physiologic stresses in potato and grape and has had extensive
experience in soil fertility and plant mineral nutrition. Before joining the WSU
faculty in 1997, Dr. Davenport was manager of agricultural research at Ocean
Spray Cranberries. She is an associate editor of HortTechnology and has served
as secretary, vice chair, and chair of the Production and Management Section of
the Potato Association of America and of the Mineral Nutrition Working Group
of the American Society of Horticultural Science. Dr. Davenport' s recent publi-
cations include "Using Site Specific Approaches to Advance Potato Management
in Irrigated Systems," "Cultivar Influences Cranberry Response to Surface Sand-
ing," and "Influences of Soil Iron and Cranberry Aerobic Status on Phosphorus
Availability in Cranberry." Dr. Davenport received a BS in plant science from
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Rutgers University, an MS in soil management from Iowa State University, and a
PhD in soil chemistry (1985) from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Rebecca C. Doyle, Andrews, Doyle and Associates, Gillespie, IL
Rebecca C. Doyle is a principal consultant at Andrews, Doyle and Associ-
ates, a food-product, agriculture, and natural-resources consulting firm. She had
been the first female director of agriculture in the Illinois Department of Agricul-
ture and Governor Edgar's point person for international marketing, biotech-
nology, and natural-resources protection. Ms. Doyle has been a board member of
the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, the International
Agri Management Association, the Farm Foundation/Bennett Roundtable, the
World Affairs Council of Central Illinois, and Women Executives in State
Government. She is a partner in Hickory Grove Pork Farm and corporate officer
of Belpine, Inc. (a family farm corporation), participating in production agricul-
ture since 1979. She has been named BIO's Government Executive of the Year
(1997) and Progressive Farmer Magazine's Agriculture Person of the Year
(1998~. Ms. Doyle received a BS in agriculture communications (1975) and an
MS in extension education (1977) from the University of Illinois College of Agri-
culture. She resigned from the committee in July 2001.
Donald N. Duvick, Affiliate Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Dr. Duvick was employed from 1951 to 1990 by Pioneer Hi-Bred Inter-
national, Inc., successively as corn breeder and geneticist, coordinator of corn
breeding, director of corn breeding, director of plant breeding, vice president of
research and senior vice president of research. After retirement from Pioneer Hi-
Bred, he was appointed an off-campus affiliate professor in the Department of
Agronomy at Iowa State University. Dr. Duvick's research contributions over
the last 50 years have been his comprehensive studies of cytoplasmic male sterility
in maize, his demonstrating the relative contribution of genetics to yield gains of
hybrid maize, his documenting the role of genetic diversity in plant breeding, and
his proving that high-yielding hybrids have low genotype x environmental inter-
actions. Dr. Duvick has been a member of the National Research Council
Committee on Pakistan-BOSTID Agricultural Research Grants (1991-1995), the
National Research Council Crop Vulnerability Work Group (1998-1993), the
National Research Council Scientific Council to the Plant Gene Expression Center
(1985-1993), and the National Research Council Subcommittee on Plants (1988-
1989~. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Genetic Resources
Communications Systems and the boards of trustees of CIMMYT (the Inter-
national Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) and the International Rice
Research Institute. Dr. Duvick was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
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in 2002. Dr. Duvick received a BS in agriculture from the University of Illinois
and a PhD in botany from Washington University, St. Louis.
Joseph I. Ten, US Department of Agriculture, Research, Education, and
Economics Mission Area, Washington, DC
Joseph J. Jen is dean of the College of Agriculture of the California Poly-
technic State University (CPSU) in San Louis Obispo. His research interests
include postharvest handling of fruits and vegetables, pectin chemistry, and food
enzymology. Before joining CPSU in 1992, Dr. Jen was chair of the Division of
Food Science and Technology of the University of Georgia. He had worked for 6
years for Campbell Soup Company. Dr. Jen has worked as a consultant to the
United Nations, US food companies, and foreign governments. He is on several
boards of directors and executive committees of national and state agriculture-
related organizations. He is a member of the California State Board of Food and
Agriculture. Dr. Jen received a BS in agricultural chemistry from National
Taiwan University, an MS in food science from Washington State University,
and a PhD in comparative biochemistry from the University of California,
Berkeley. He also received an MBA from Southern Illinois University. Dr. Jen
resigned from the committee to become undersecretary of the US Department of
Agriculture's Research, Education, and Economics Mission Area.
John B. Kaneene, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Dr. Kaneene is professor of epidemiology and director of the Population
Medicine Center at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State Uni-
versity. His research interests include molecular epidemiology of emerging and
re-emerging enteric zoonotic diseases, epidemiology of antibiotic resistance in
animal and human populations, risk-assessment modeling as related to foodborne
pathogens, and epidemiology and prevention of drug residues in foods.
Dr. Kaneene served on the National Research Council Subcommittee on Drug
Use in Food Animals. He received a BS in mathematics (1968) and a DVM from
the University of Khartoum in Sudan. He received an MPH and a PhD in epide-
miology from the University of Minnesota.
Larry Kuzminski, Duxbury, MAT
See About the Authors.
* Synthesis Committee member.
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ABOUT THE SUBCOMMITTEES
Arno G. Motulsky, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Dr. Motulsky is professor (emeritus-active) of medicine and genome sci-
ences at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is considered a founder of the
field of pharmacogenetics. His recent research focuses on human and medical
genetics, the role of polymorphisms and mutations associated with disease sus-
ceptibilities, and molecular genetics of color vision. Dr. Motulsky has held
numerous editorial positions, including positions with the American Journal of
Human Genetics and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He
has served on the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Human
Genetics and on various National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committees,
including service as chair of the Committee on Diet and Health. He is on the
NAS Temporary Nominating Group for Clinical and Epidemiological Sciences.
He is a member of NAS and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Motulsky received his
BS and MD from the University of Illinois.
David L. Pelletier, Associate Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Dr. Pelletier is associate professor of nutrition policy in the Division of
Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. His research, teaching, and outreach
focus on the interaction of science, politics, and public values in the formation of
food and nutrition policy. His research interests include agricultural biotech-
nology, dietary supplements and local food systems in the United States, and iron
fortification, malnutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. He
received a BS in biology and a BA in anthropology from the University of Arizona
and an MA in anthropology and a PhD in anthropology with a nutrition minor
from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Pelletier has served on a variety of
national and international advisory bodies for the US Department of Agriculture,
the US Agency for International Development, the World Health Organization,
the World Bank, UNICEF, and the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Jean A.T. Pennington, Research Nutritionist, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD
Dr. Pennington is a research nutritionist in the Division of Nutrition Research
Coordination at the National Institutes of Health. She had served in various posi-
tions in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of the Food and Drug
Administration. Dr. Pennington has expertise in nutrition, physiology, dietary
surveillance, and food-composition databases. She has served as temporary
adviser to the Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization
Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives and as president of the Society for
Nutrition Education. Dr. Pennington received her BA in Physiology and her PhD
in nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Max Rothschild, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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Dr. Rothschild is a distinguished professor of animal science at Iowa State
University. His research has centered on genetic control of growth, reproduction,
and health in swine, and identification of genes associated with economic traits in
farm animals. Awards that Dr. Rothschild has recently received include the C.F.
Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture (1999), American Association for
the Advancement of Science Fellow (1998), US Department of Agriculture
Honor Team Award (1997), and American Society of Animal Science Animal
Breeding and Genetics Award (1995~. Dr. Rothschild serves on the editorial
boards of the Journal of Animal Biotechnology, the Journal of Animal Breeding
and Genetics, AgBio News and Information, and the Journal of Agriculture
Genomics. He serves as the coordinator of the USDA Cooperative State Research,
Education, and Extension Service National Swine Genome Project, which spans
a number of institutions. He is also a member of the Program Advisory Board for
Agricultural Biotechnology of CAB International. Dr. Rothschild received a BS
in animal science from the University of California, Davis, an MS in animal
science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a PhD in animal breed-
ing (with minors in genetics and statistics) from Cornell University.
Andrew Schmitz, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Dr. Schmitz is Ben Hill Griffin eminent scholar and professor of food and
resource economics at the University of Florida, research professor at the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley, and adjunct professor of the University of
Saskatchewan. His teaching and research interests include international trade,
marketing, cost-benefit analysis, and antitrust economics. He has been a consult-
ant to many organizations, including legal firms in California, Iowa, the District
of Columbia, and Canada; the National Grain and Feed Association; Sunkist
Growers; Technokron; The World Bank; the US Central Intelligence Agency; the
US Department of Agriculture; and Agriculture and Agri Food Canada. Recent
publications include Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, and Rent-Seeking
Behaviour. Dr. Schmitz received a BSA and an MSc from the University of
Saskatchewan and an MA and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin. He also
received an earned doctor of letters degree from the University of Saskatchewan.
John W. Suttie, University of Wisconsin, Madison
See About the Authors.
* Synthesis Committee member.
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Policy and Resources
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Agricultural Biotechnology: Strategies for National Competitiveness (1987)
Agricultural Biotechnology and the Poor: Proceedings of an International Conference,
(2000)
Agriculture and Be Undergraduate: Proceedings (1992)
Agriculture's Role in K-12 Education: A Forum on Me National Science Education
Standards (1998)
Alternative Agriculture (1989)
Animal Biotechnology: Science-based Concerns (2002)
Brucellosis in Be Greater Yellowstone Area (1998)
Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities: Public Service and Public
Policy (1996)
Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities: A Profile (1995)
Countering Agricultural Bioterrorism (2002)
Designing an Agricultural Genome Program ( 1998)
Designing Foods: Animal Product Options in Be Marketplace (1988)
Ecological Monitoring of Genetically Modified Crops (2001 )
Ecologically Based Pest Management: New Solutions for a New Century (1996)
Ensuring Safe Food: From Production to Consumption (1998)
Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants: The Scope and Adequacy of Regulation
(2002)
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