Secretary Perdue Announces New Innovation Initiative for USDA
- Food loss and waste: Advance our work toward the United States’ goal to reduce food loss and waste by 50 percent in the United States by the year 2030.
- Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas: Enhance carbon sequestration through soil health and forestry, leverage the agricultural sector’s renewable energy benefits for the economy, and capitalize on innovative technologies and practices to achieve net reduction of the agricultural sector’s current carbon footprint by 2050 without regulatory overreach.
- Water Quality: Reduce nutrient loss by 30 percent nationally by 2050.
- Renewable Energy: We can increase the production of renewable energy feedstocks and set a goal to increase biofuel production efficiency and competitiveness to achieve market-driven blend rates of 15% of transportation fuels in 2030 and 30% of transportation fuels by 2050.
Read more about the Agriculture Innovation Agenda[1] (PDF, 196 KB) here.
Secretary Perdue announced via a Prezi Presentation the Agriculture Innovation Agenda[2] at USDA’s 2020 Agriculture Outlook Forum this morning. The theme of this year’s Outlook Forum is “The Innovation Imperative: Shaping the Future of Agriculture.” Several plenary panels and breakout sessions will focus on the central role science and innovation play in driving future growth and addressing challenges facing farmers.
Follow the conversation at #USDAinnovation on USDA’s Twitter[3], Instagram[4], and Facebook[5].
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References
- ^ Agriculture Innovation Agenda (www.usda.gov)
- ^ announced via a Prezi Presentation the Agriculture Innovation Agenda (prezi.com)
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