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Sustainable nutrition science could help solve climate and health crises. Why isn’t the federal government funding more of it?
SOURCE: Union of Concerned Scientists
| 2021
A new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists finds that federal funding for “sustainable nutrition science”—a field of research and education at the intersection of food production, climate and environment, and nutrition—is abysmally low, amounting to less than 25 cents out of every thousand dollars in federal research funding.
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