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Name: Ronald L. Phillips on Apr 2, 2008Comments: These budgetary cuts are coming at a time when the investment in plant sciences/biotechnology are paying off, such as the submergence gene in rice that will allow the poorest farmers to have normal yields even with two weeks of flooding, golden rice with the potential of saving a large portion of the 6000 people dying per day due to Vitamin A deficiencies, and the development of varieties of the major crops tolerant to water shortages. The CGIAR centers provide the best hope of alleviating poverty , malnutrition, and starvation . Why would the United States reduce the effectiveness of these centers when the need is great and the solutions will be at least as productive as during the green revolution and will be more environmentally friendlyFlag
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Name: Louise Fortmann on Apr 2, 2008Comments: Professor of Natural Resource Sociology Rudy Grah Chair in Forestry and Sustainable Development Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management UC BerkeleyFlag
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Name: Thomas Vogelmann on Apr 4, 2008Comments: WIth food becoming more of an issue in stabilizing world politics, funding for CGIAR needs to be increased, not decreased.Flag
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Name: Dr. P. Leszek Vincent on Apr 4, 2008Comments: This petition addresses an important aspect of Leadership that Congressional Partners & USAID Administrators should be providing to the rest of the world through the Leadership provided by the USAID.Flag
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Name: Kent J. Bradford on Apr 4, 2008Comments: The CGIAR system is critical for crop germplasm conservation and development into improved varieties for agriculture. Improvement in agricultural productivity is the most effective way to reduce poverty in developing countries. It is inconceivable that USAID is proposing to reduce funding for the CGIAR system.Flag
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Name: Lakshmi Praba Manavalan on Apr 4, 2008Comments: CGIAR institutes conducts not only research to benefit the poor farmers all over the world, but simultaneously educates researchers from underdeveloped and developing countries. The funding from USAID, hence not only will benefit directly to do more research, but will improve the quality of research these trainees receive from the CG system, which in turn will benefit the overall improvement of research strtegies for these countries.Flag
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Name: Surinder Chopra on Apr 4, 2008Comments: We shouold never forget the contribution of CGIAR centers to Plant Genetcs research and application. Thus I fully support the need for funds to be allocated fromUSAID to CGIAR.Flag
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Name: Dr. Anne H. Datko on Apr 4, 2008Comments: Research carried out at the CGIAR centers is crucial for improved food production for the developing countries of the world. Cutting funding is shortsighted. How is it moral to endeavor to save lives through medical aid yet fail to give support to efforts to provide foodFlag
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Name: Dr. Anne H. Datko on Apr 4, 2008Comments: Research carried out at the CGIAR centers is crucial for improved food production for the developing countries of the world. Cutting funding is shortsighted. How is it moral to endeavor to save lives through medical aid yet fail to give support to efforts to provide foodFlag
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Name: Edward Coe on Apr 4, 2008Comments: The CGIAR centers are the vital and primary source of hope for application of solid agricultural science to improvement of the livelihood of hundreds of millions of undernourished, malnourished, and destitute peoples in the international arena.Flag
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Name: Pamela J. Green on Apr 4, 2008Comments: I just spent the last month of my sabbatical with USAID in Washington and I support this petition strongly based on first-hand knowledge of the tremendous value of their work. The complete lack of USAID funding for biotechnology is especially disturbing and I urge that this be rectified.Flag
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Name: Albert Ruesink on Apr 4, 2008Comments: I have followed this development work on food production for forty years and am flabbergasted that support is now being cut.Flag
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Name: Joe Polacco on Apr 4, 2008Comments: The CGIAR centers are proven generators of improved agricultural practices and crop varieties. They have been instrumental in the increased yields of rice and wheat- the basis of the green revolution. Monies invested in these centers was paid back many times by increased stablity, prosperous trading partners and reduced foreign aid. To cut short funding now is short-sighted, will kill many current projects and will end training of scientists many of whom may contribute to US agriculture. Moreover, food security is the best security we can think of in a volatile world. The US should be at the forefront of these international efforts. Let us be a positive example again.Flag
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Name: James W. Jones on Apr 4, 2008Comments: Support of the CGIAR system is one of the best investments that USAID makes. The international research centers provide highly relevant, high quality, research and knowledge that helps developing countries solve problems that may otherwise lead to greater hunger and unrest that would cost far more than the investment that USAID is making now.Flag
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