Ariel Ortiz-Bobea on the need for increasing public investment in agricultural R&D
Update: 2025-03-12
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Climate change and flagging investment in research and development has U.S. agriculture facing its first productivity slowdown in decades. Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, associate professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, explains what is needed to reverse course: a level of public R&D spending growth that hasn’t been seen in the U.S. since the years following World War I and World War II. Read more: Large-scale investment in research needed to maintain U.S. agriculture
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