AAU and 41 organizations joined the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Coalition in a letter to congressional agriculture appropriators to request they provide at least $480 million for the AFRI program in FY21. The coalition says this funding level “will bolster critical research areas aimed at addressing our nation’s most pressing agriculture and public health challenges, including bioenergy, nutrition, climate adaptation and resiliency, agricultural technology, economic prosperity in rural communities, and food safety.”