Tag: Agro-Defense

DARPA’s Foundational Security for Food Systems (FS2) program will explore a pathway-based approach to provide advanced threat detection and warning ...

The current regulations for valuing animals for indemnification vary from species to species and, in some cases, from disease to ...

Livestock diseases will be better managed by incorporating the behaviors of individual farmers into national infection control policies, according to ...

Although rare, reports exist throughout history of non-state actors using or threatening to use biological agents against animals or agriculture. ...

To reduce the risk of unintended ecological consequences from environmentally deployed, genetically engineered microorganisms (GEMS), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and ...

FEATURED POLICY + PREPAREDNESS Schumer Proposes $8.5 Billion in Emergency Coronavirus Funding Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released ...

Invasive species have the potential to damage our economy, change our way of life and impact our wellbeing. We have ...

Excerpt from The Pandora Report: An attack on the food supply gives the perpetrating group several benefits. The psychological and ...

The Director of Animal Health with Hylife says the emotional experience of dealing with Porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDv) is ...

An outbreak of African swine fever in Poland near the German border has killed 21 wild boar, Agriculture Minister Jan ...

For the newly hired director of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), Alfonso Clavijo, it’s been a whirlwind his ...

In October 2019, a House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Defending the Homeland from Bioterrorism: Are We ...

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agriculture Research Service (ARS) today announced the hiring of Dr. Alfonso Clavijo as ...

The President’s FY 2019 budget request calls for transitioning ownership and responsibility for operating the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has announced a competitive opportunity to conduct ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Biological Technologies Office (DARPA BTO) is currently accepting proposals under its streamlined funding process, ...

In a new study in Analytical Chemistry, scientists report that they are closing in on a way to use a ...

Hygiena, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company that specializes in rapid food safety and environmental sanitation testing, announced today that it ...

Angus cattle on pasture. Credit: Scott Bauer The National Agricultural Biosecurity Center (NABC) has received new funding from the Department ...

Bipartisan Policy Center panel members: Jason Grumet, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center; former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle; Gen. ...