| # | Name | Email | Comments |
|---|
| 901 | Anson Xu | pechua_07@sina.com | no one can stay well with a empty stomach.
worship Agriculture as your life
protect Agriculture as your life |
| 902 | Joćo Bosco | jbosco@cnph.embrapa.br | |
| 903 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 904 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 905 | Renate Mann | renate_mann@gmx.de | |
| 906 | Dietmar Stoian | stoian@catie.ac.cr | International agricultural research is critical to solve the global food crisis and reduce rural poverty. After years of neglect, the World Bank has revisited its agricultural policy and emphasizes the crucial role agriculture plays for the development of tropical and subtropical countries. In its World Development Report 2008, the Bank highlights the importance of science and technology and the benefits of enhanced agricultural germplasm for the poor. The CGIAR system ensures continuous improvement of these vital genetic resources. In addition, it advances alternative technologies, methodologies, and policy recommendations that help achieve food security and reduce poverty in developing countries. I request USAID to reconsider its funding policy and increase the funding of the IARC rather than cutting it back. |
| 907 | Janet Lewis | lewisja6@msu.edu | |
| 908 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 909 | Homero Dewes | hdewes@ufrgs.br | USAID funding of agriculture biotechnology research at CGIAR is critical for the establishment of a worldwide understanding and acceptance of innovative technologies in crop production. |
| 910 | Gregory Martin | gbm7@cornell.edu | |
| 911 | Christopher Topp | ctopp@plantbio.uga.edu | |
| 912 | Simon Putzhammer | thesimon@web.de | |
| 913 | Iain A Wright | iainawright@gmail.com | |
| 914 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 915 | Eleanore Wurtzel | wurtzel@lehman.cuny.edu | |
| 916 | Paul R. Bloom | prb@umn.edu | Prof. of Soil Science
University of MInnesota |
| 917 | Victor Ryabchoun Ph.D. | leader@kharkov.ukrtel.net | My title is: Chief of the National Centre for Plant Genetic Resources of Ukraine. |
| 918 | Bruce Blum | biblum@verizon.net | |
| 919 | Elizabeth A. Kellogg | tkellogg@umsl.edu | E. Desmond Lee and Family Professor of Botanical Studies
University of Missouri - Saint Louis |
| 920 | William C. Clark | william_clark@harvard.edu | CGIAR is the world's foremost research and development resource for dealing with the international food crisis. Starving people in order to make them healthier -- the priorities of USAID's announced funding priorities -- makes no sense whatsoever. |
| 921 | Nancy Dickson | nancy_dickson@harvard.edu | |
| 922 | Katharine R. E. Sims | kresims@fas.harvard.edu | |
| 923 | Jesse Munkvold | jmunkvold@gmail.com | |
| 924 | Prof M K Theodorou | mkt@aber.ac.uk | As we face up to issues of - global warming, climate change, food shortages, the energy dilemma, now is not the time to reduce funding to CGIAR. |
| 925 | Elizabeth McNie | mcnie@colorado.edu | Please avoid making this short-sighted policy a reality. Stay the course on agricultural research. |
| 926 | David M Hart | dhart@gmu.edu | |
| 927 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 928 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 929 | Susan R. Wessler | sue@plantbio.uga.edu | |
| 930 | William A. Masters | wmasters@purdue.edu | Cutting CGIAR funds would be a bad idea at any time, and is an appalling idea in 2008-09. What if USAID had done this in 1973-74, during the last food crisis? |
| 931 | Keith Fahrney | k.fahrney@cgiar.org | Support to the CG centers for research will help to alleviate the serious world food crisis. This is fundamental to a stable and peaceful world and should be supported not only for obvious humanitarian reasons, but on grounds of national security (if that is what it takes to push congressional buttons). |
| 932 | Matthew Blair | m.blair@cgiar.org | CGIAR centers played a key role in the green revolution of the previous century and are needed now more than ever as population growth, bioenergy needs and climate change create new challenges for the world's agricultural sector. I encourage USAID to reconsider the budget cuts. |
| 933 | John Daly | john.daly@gmail.com | I spent 20 years at USAID in science policy, finally directing USAID's Office of Research. I can attest that the funding of the CGIAR is one of the most cost effective of all U.S. aid programs, which is especially important as we face a food crisis. It also, as a nice side effect, benefits U.S. consumers as well as the hungry worldwide. |
| 934 | Chih-Wei Tung | cwt6@cornell.edu | |
| 935 | Neville Millar | millarn@msu.edu | Visiting Research Associate
Michigan State University |
| 936 | Michele Hujber | mlhujber@hotmail.com | |
| 937 | Lyza Maron | lgm7@cornell.edu | |
| 938 | Laura Bartley | lebartley@ucdavis.edu | The CG centers have had a key role in conducting and translating research to improve the livelihoods of poor people throughout the world. With continued environmental degradation and political unrest, it is crucial that the CG centers be supported so that they can continue to lead this effort. Please reconsider the cuts to the CG budget. |
| 939 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 940 | Deobrah Delmer | ddelmer@gmail.com | As a member of the National Academy of Sciences, I strongly support this peititon. The centers of the CGIAR are absolutely critical for research and development for agriculture in the developing world. Cuts to them couldn't come at a worse time. |
| 941 | Holly Gorton | hlgorton@smcm.edu | |
| 942 | Michalann Harthill | mharthill@gmail.com | |
| 943 | Douglas P. Maxwell | douglas.maxwell08@gmail.com | CGIAR are critical in future to assistance developing countries maintain agricultural productivity. With many the increasing populations of many developing countries, more food is need; more research is needed, more extension is need. |
| 944 | Ellen McCullough | ellenm@stanfordalumni.org | Now is the time to invest in agricultural research and development. The CGIAR centers perform a global service. |
| 945 | Jo Dicks | jo.dicks@bbsrc.ac.uk | Dr Jo Dicks, Group Leader, John Innes Centre, UK
As a UK scientist who has worked with researchers at several CGIAR centres, I strongly support this petition |
| 946 | Sonny Ramaswamy | sonny@purdue.edu | I sincerely hope that USAID reverses its decision to cut funding for the CG system by 75%. This would not only be a devastating blow to the international research programs on food, agriculture, and the environment, but also exacerbate the already dire situation facing the world in terms of the availability of food to the poorest people in the world. |
| 947 | Thomas Gaiser | tgaiser@uni-bonn.de | |
| 948 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 949 | Marc Bernard | mbe@zadi.de | |
| 950 | William A. Payne | w-payne@tamu.edu | |