Items Tagged with 'Council for Agricultural Science and Technology'

Former FDA Deputy Commissioner of Food Policy and Response Frank Yiannas has joined Wiliot and Janie Hipp has started a new job as the CEO and president of the Native Agriculture Financial Services.

Cindy McCain has been named the next executive director of the United Nations World Food Program and USDA has been appointed L’Tonya Davis as the first permanent chief diversity and inclusion officer.

Joe Shultz is the new executive director of the newly launched Platform for Agriculture and Climate Transformation and Jaime Adams has been tapped as the new senior policy adviser for climate at USDA.

The Department of Agriculture has filled six senior staff positions, and the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition has added two to its policy team.

Val Dolcini is leaving California and heading back to Washington and Charles Santerre has been named the chairperson for Clemson University’s Food, Nutrition and Packaging Sciences Department.

Willette Crawford was appointed to California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement and Hank Giclas retires from Western Growers

According to a new report released by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, genetic diversity in the livestock industry is decreasing, and an intensive program to maintain samples and evaluations of different gene pools needs to be developed to avoid species extinction.