National Research Initiative A Vital Competitive Grants Program in Food, Fiber, and Natural-Resources Research (2000) / Chapter Skim
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2 Value of Food, Fiber, and Natural-Resources Research
2 Value of Food, Fiber, and Natural-Resources Research
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Congress also has reviewed national trends in research, as recently described in the 1998 House Committee on Science report, Unlocking Our Future: Toward a New National Science Policy (the "Ehlers report"~. The report, written under the leadership of physicist and US Representative Vernon Ehlers, documents the importance and the "stunning payoffs" of the federal research investment in the US technology enterprise.
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USDA's Economic Research Service estimates that each dollar earned from exported food and fiber stimulates another $1.32 of output in the United States. US food and fiber exports alone were estimated to support about 859,000 full-time jobs in 1996.
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Maintaining such an effect of research and return on investment in food, fiber, and natural resources will require focused and wise investments in the research enterprise that will catalyze advances in agricultural biotechnology and in fundamental biologic and engineering research applied to food, fiber, and natural resources. The return on investment in food and fiber research includes not only returns to the technology developers that benefit from the research outcomes, but also the returns to farmers, agribusinesses, consumers, and other members of society that benefit from the research outcomes.
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Third, the research returns are magnified by stimulating technology adoption and further research in other countries, economic sectors, and industries. The rates represent the returns on primarily production-based research involving plants and animals.
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Examples of social-science research outcomes are economic and social policy analyses, decision support and forecasting information, institutional innovations, and new organizational structures in food and fiber production and distribution. IMPACTS OF ADVANCES IN LIFE SCIENCES Largely within the last decade, food and fiber research investments by the private sector have increased from a historical level of 2% to 4% of gross sales to 10% or more a level that is more typical of value-added products than of traditional agricultural cornrnodities.
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Until the late 1970s, the United States spent more on research than all other industrialized countries combined (Mowery and Rosenberg, 1989~. After World War II, other federal agencies received a greater proportion of federal research funding relative to USDA.
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, US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Private-Sector Agricultural Research Expenditures in the United States; public research data derived from US Department of Agriculture Inventory of Agricultural Research
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Source: US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. Data based on Klotz, Fuglie, and Pray, 1995
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