Perennial crops hold great potential for long-term agricultural sustainability, but researchers are walking away from work on perennials because federal funding is too focused on short-term improvements and increases in yield.
Paying for Perennialism: A Quest for Food and Funding (Fall 2011)
Perennial crops hold great potential for long-term agricultural sustainability, but researchers are walking away from work on perennials because federal funding is too focused on short-term improvements and increases in yield.
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Elizabeth Popp Berman
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of Public Policy, University of Albany, SUNY
Sarah Whelchel
Sarah Whelchel is originally from Atlanta, GA. She majored in the History of Science at Princeton University. She currently is employed as a pharmaceutical advertising copywriter in New York. She is particularly interested in neuroscience, health care, and the pharmaceutical industry, and plans to continue writing about science in one way or another wherever life takes her.