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A SCIENCE ROADMAP FOR AGRICULTURE

A SCIENCE ROADMAP FOR AGRICULTURE. Tom Helms (ED-SR) Richard Jones (UFL) Eric Young (NCSU). A Science Roadmap for Agriculture. Science Roadmap Preparation. Developed by the ESCOP Science Roadmap Task Force. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture. Objectives:.

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A SCIENCE ROADMAP FOR AGRICULTURE

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  1. A SCIENCE ROADMAP FOR AGRICULTURE Tom Helms (ED-SR) Richard Jones (UFL) Eric Young (NCSU)

  2. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Science Roadmap Preparation Developed by the ESCOP Science Roadmap Task Force

  3. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Objectives: • Plot future research opportunities of science-for-agriculture • More carefully decide research directions and institutional investments, especially when developing goods and services using public funds

  4. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Task Force • 24 scholars, representing diverse disciplines and geographic areas • Charged by ESCOP to look forward 10 to 20 years • Chart the major directions of agricultural science

  5. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Effort included: • Prioritizing stakeholder needs • Determining scientific feasibility using current methods and tools • Predicting positive impacts of successful research outcomes • Setting forth seven Challenge Areas, each with four Objectives

  6. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Seven Challenge Areas • Develop new and more competitive crop products and new uses for diverse crops and novel plant species. • Develop new products and new uses for animals. • Reduce the risks of local and global climatic change on food, fiber, and fuel production.

  7. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Seven Challenge Areas (cont.) • Provide the information and knowledge needed to further improve environmental stewardship. • Improve the economic return to agricultural producers. • Strengthen our communities and families. • Ensure improved food safety and health through agricultural and food systems.

  8. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Roadmap will: • Assist decision-makers and advocates for the research and education system • Help mobilize and plan the allocation of resources for future program areas

  9. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Caveats • Not a comprehensive description of everything to be accomplished in agricultural research • Current agricultural research agenda must be continued into the future • Maintenance research must be sustained to protect past gains • Basic research must be supported if agriculture is to be well served by science

  10. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Analysis of Current Scientific Capacity and Estimates of Future Needs Developed by the ESCOP Planning Committee

  11. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Objectives: • Identify appropriate mix of expertise required to meet challenges • Pursue federal budget increases to obtaining that expertise

  12. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Methods: • Estimated current effort on each challenge/ objective using CRIS’s SY & FOS database • Requested 45 directors in 1862 & 1890 institutions to estimate appropriate mix of FOS’s to address each challenge/objective • 22 directors responded, representing all regions and range of rural & urban areas

  13. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Methods (cont.): • Converted estimates to % of objective total to normalize for total SY’s • Calculated mean, maximum, minimum & standard deviation for each FOS • Calculated challenge/objective totals using SY estimates

  14. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Results: • Total additional SY’s needed is 5179 • 73% increase over current total of 7064 • Critical needs in molecular biology, nutrition & metabolism, engineering, economics, genetics & breeding, and sociology • New expertise in bioethics, biosystems modeling, logistics and transportation

  15. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Federal Budget Requests and Justifications Developed by the ESCOP Budget and Legislative Committee

  16. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Cost Analysis • FOS’s grouped into 6 areas: • Biological Sciences • Nutrition / Epidemiology • Ecology / Environmental Sciences • Physical Sciences • Engineering / Earth Sciences • Social Sciences • CRIS expenditure data compiled for each

  17. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Cost of FOS’s ($000/SY, % Fed, % State) • Biological Sciences $469 38% 35% • Nutrition/Epidemiology $507 33% 42% • Ecology/Environ Sci $333 17% 52% • Physical Sciences $386 23% 51% • Engineering/Earth Sci $394 17% 55% • Social Sciences $33724% 52% • Average Cost $404 25% 48%

  18. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Cost of Additional SY Needs • Total cost for 5179 is ~$2.104 billion • 30% from federal ~$625 M • 43% from state ~$921 M • 27% from other ~$558 M

  19. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Highest FOS’s • Molecular Biology $202 M • Nutrition/Metabolism $170 M • Engineering $150 M • Economics $146 M • Genetics/Breeding $136 M • Biochem/Biophysics $119 M

  20. A Science Roadmap for Agriculture Competitive Grants Program Needs • Increase needed to fund all high quality proposals • NIH 69% $1,537 M • NSF 67% $1,000 M • USDA-NRI 187% $ 206 M • USDA-IFAFS 411% $ 468 M

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