Investing in Research A Proposal to Strengthen the Agricultural, Food, and Environmental System (1989) / Chapter Skim
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2 The Proposal
2 The Proposal
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For example, the proposal is not intended to provide a significant new source of funds for state-specific applications of technology or for regional technology transfer and educational activities. Those and other needs will continue to be met principally by activities of the state agricultural experiment stations, the Agricultural Research Service, the Cooperative Extension Service, and other components of the agricultural research, extension, and educational systems.
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Weakening it by diverting federal formula or ARS funds to other programseven to an expanded competitive grants programmakes little sense; and politically, the attempt to do so would be destructive. The state and federal funds supporting the current system of technology development and transfer should be continued.
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There was also a short-lived and severely underfunded forestry grants program that, among other things, stimulated research with the potential to hasten progress in the genetic improvement of tree varieties for commercial forest plantings.4 The expanded competitive grants program should cover the entire agricultural, food, and environmental WRESTING IN RESEARCH system and should therefore support work not only in the three areas currently receiving support but in all six program areas listed above. Similarly, the program should embrace all necessary science and technology disciplines needed for each of the six program areas.
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Principal investigator grants will be awarded to individual scientists or to two or more principal investigators working collaboratively as co-principal investigators within the same discipline or in closely related disciplines. Grants for principal investigators are the foundation of the highly successful competitive grants programs in the United States and are the major way to attract talented scientists to research areas.
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INVESTING IN RESEARCH ATTENTION TO MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH The expanded competitive grants program should put major emphasis on supporting both fundamental and missionlinked multidisciplinary research teams. Up to 50 percent of the funding awarded for USDA's competitive grants should support multidisciplinary research.
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To rectify this situation, the USDA competitive grants program should award grants that enable effective conduct of research and that are more nearly comparable in size and duration to the grants awarded by NSF and NIH theinstitutions with the largess end most successful grants programs in the United States. This change alone will do much to attract more topquality and new scientific talent into the agricultural, food, and environmental system and to further stimulate and reinforce the talent already in the system.
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science competitive grants programs cover only portions of the proposed plant and animal systems program areas (for example, veterinary medical issues are not now included) and that the current biotechnology program applies to five of the six proposed program areas but only partially and partially to the sixth proposed program area (markets, trade, and policy)
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