CGIAR Suport Petition 101-200

Signatures

Name

Comments

101

Dr. Munqez Shtaya

102

Dr. P. Leszek Vincent

This petition addresses an important aspect of Leadership that Congressional Partners & USAID Administrators should be providing to the rest of the world through the Leadership provided by the USAID.

103

Dr. Peter Balint-Kurti

104

Dr. Thomas Brutnell

105

Dr. Zachary Larson-Rabin

106

drew schwartz

107

Dwight G. Kanter

Through rice germplasm exchanges and scientific collaboration, US industries and consumers are beneficaries of a productive and mutual relationship with the CGIAR centers in contributing to peoples food needs.

108

Edward Buckler

109

Edward Grow

Research assistant, University of Missouri-Columbia

110

Eleanore Wurtzel

111

Eleni Bachlava

Graduate Student, North Carolina State University

112

Elisa Collins

Graduate Student, University of Michigan

113

Elisabeth Gantt

114

Elizabeth A. Kellogg

E. Desmond Lee and Family Professor of Botanical StudiesUniversity of Missouri - Saint Louis

115

Elizabeth Ashley

116

Elizabeth D. Earle

117

Elizabeth McNie

Please avoid making this short-sighted policy a reality. Stay the course on agricultural research.

118

Emerson D. Nafziger

119

Eric Miltner

Associate ProfessorWashington State University

120

Eric N. Jellen

121

Eric W. Triplett

CIGAR centers are essential for American agriculture in addition to agriculture abroad.

122

Erik Vollbrecht

Assistant ProfessorIowa State University

123

Ernest Retzel

Program LeaderNational Center for Genome ResourcesSanta Fe, NMVisiting Scholar, University of Minnesota

124

Eva Huala

TAIR Director

125

Fabio Sartori

Postdoctoral Research AssociateTexas A&M UniversityGeology & Geophysics

126

Faith Bartz

127

Fangpu Han

128

Frank Shotkoski

This may be the most important long term impact political decision that will be made in 2008/09 fiscal year.

129

Fusheng Wei

Continuing is the most important aspect of scientific research.

130

G. Richard Johnson

Monsanto retiree. Currently Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois

131

Gary H. Heichel

Professor Emeritus, Plant PhysiologyUniversity of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

132

Gautam Shirsekar

133

George Chuck

134

Gloria Moore

135

Gregory Martin

136

Guo-Liang Wang

Supporting the CGIAR centers is essential for our fighting against hunger and poverty  in the the developing countries!

137

Guo-Ling Nan

Researcher at Stanford University

138

Guo-qing Song

Visiting Assistant professor & Assistant Director, Plant Biotechnology Resource and Outreach Center, Michigan State University

139

Gurmukh S. Johal

CGIAR is too important to world agriculture to be ignored

140

H. Davdi Thurston

It would be a crime against humanity to reduce the  budget of CGIAR, on of the few organizations trying to do something worthwhile for humanity.

141

Hans J. Bohnert

142

Hector Candela Anton

143

Hector Sanchez-Villeda

CGIAR is the most important group that provides support of agriculture research for the third world.  Its contributions help to avoid hunger and have a lot of impact in their economies, as researchers we ask you to reconsider the implications that will cause the failure of your support.

144

Heidi Kaeppler

Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

145

Henry A. Fribourg, Ph.D.

I am strongly in favor. I worked in eight different countries, and in the USA for 45 years. Still active in writing after seven years retired. I am a Fellow of CSSA, Fellow of ASA, 2008 Distinguished Grasslander of AFGC

146

Hikmet Budak

147

Ivan F. Acosta

I worked in one of the CGIAR centers (CIAT in Colombia) before starting my PhD. It was a wonderful opportunity to witness the change they can make in developing countries like mine.

148

Jack Gardiner

It is essential that USAID support this valuable resource that has made very signifcant contributions to third world agriculture.

149

Jackie Rudd

150

James A. Birchler

151

James D. Kelly

152

James Estill

153

James G. Coors

Professor EmeritusDepartment of AgronomyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

154

James Hansen

155

James Harsh, Ph.D.

156

James L. Brewbaker

IF the USA would spend one-tenth of its foreign military "investment" on improved world agriculture, there would be no need for military "investment". CGIAR has an impeccable record of "green revolutions", and they've just begun.

157

James P. Muir

Neighbors with full bellies are more likely to be partners and less likely to become burdens.

158

James W. Jones

Support of the CGIAR system is one of the best investments that USAID makes. The international research centers provide highly relevant, high quality, research and knowledge that helps developing countries solve problems that may otherwise lead to greater hunger and unrest that would cost far more than the investment that USAID is making now.

159

Jan A. D. Zeevaart

160

Jan Leach

161

Janelle Jun

162

Janet Lewis

163

Janice Zale Ph.D.

164

Jay B. Hollick, Ph.D.

165

Jeff Bennetzen

166

Jen Shiu

167

Jennifer Clifford

168

Jennifer S. Hawkins

Postdoctoral research associate, University of Georgia

169

Jeremy D. Edwards

170

Jerry J. Johnson

CGIAR is the backbone of agriculture research for the third world. Failure to support CGIAR would be a collassal mistake. I worked for 12 years in West Africa to improve food crop production and technology transfer to subsistance farmers. The CGIAR research centers are the major contributor to drought and pest resistant food crop varieties as well as agricultural technologies to mitigate soil erosion and maintain soil productivity.

171

Jerzy Nowak

High nutrition food and energy and industrial crops production under reduced inputs, the main targets of plant breeding and biotechnology supply are intrinsic components of Human Security and Prevention of Violence.

172

Jianli Liu

173

Jianming Yu

174

Jianwei Zhang

World needs CGIAR, US needs world.

175

Jianxin Ma

Assistant ProfessorPurdue University

176

Joan Spence

177

Joe Chappell

178

Joe Omielan

179

Joe Polacco

The CGIAR centers are proven generators of improved agricultural practices and crop varieties.  They have been instrumental in the increased yields of rice and wheat- the basis of the green revolution.  Monies invested in these centers was paid back many times by increased stablity, prosperous trading partners and reduced foreign aid.        To cut short funding now is short-sighted, will kill many current projects and will end training of scientists many of whom may contribute to US agriculture.  Moreover, food security is the best security we can think of in a volatile world.  The US should be at the forefront of these international efforts.  Let us be a positive example again.

180

John Gatz

Professor of ZoologyOhio Wesleyan University

181

John P. Klingler

182

John Sloan

The USAID can also play an important role in supporting research and development related to the improvement of soil fertility and soil conservation in developing countries.  Haiti and Madagascar are expamples of two countries whose soil resources are at extreme risk due to deforestation of hillsides.

183

John Yoder

184

Jorge Dubcovsky

Funds to CGIAR are esencial to maintain a stable food supply. In addition the activities of those centers are essential for US breeding programs. I am the wheat breeder for California and most of the germplasm we incorporate each year comes from CIMMYT.

185

Jose Costa, Associate Professor

These centers are very important to fight world hunger.

186

Joshua Udall

187

Juan Carlos Brevis

188

Judith Kolkman

PhD., Maize Disease Resistance Lab, Cornell University

189

Julia Bailey-Serres

USAID, via the International Rice Research Institute, has funded the research of my group on submergence tolerant rice. Our findings are being used to produce rice lines, but breeding, that are tolerant of prolonged periods of complete submergence. These will be grown by farmers in countries such as Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines. Julia Bailey-Serres, Professor of Genetics, University of California, RIverside.

190

Julian Schroeder

191

Julie Abendroth

192

Jun Pyo Kim

Graduate studentUniversity of Missouri-Columbia

193

Kan Wang

194

Karen Cone

195

Karen Schumaker

196

Karl Erhard, Graduate Student, UC Berkeley

197

Katharine R. E. Sims

198

Kathleen Brown

199

Katie Petersen

200

Katrien M. Devos