ifeeder资金研究以养活世界

“Shape the Future. Feed the World.” It’s the motto and guiding principle behind the Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER). IFEEDER has many goals, but its main purpose is to provide knowledge relating to the nutrition of animals and sustainable feed manufacturing practices and through education and research.

需要的支持,随着IFEEDER看到一个至关重要的ch and education projects necessary to provide answers to the question of how to provide safe, affordable food and feed to sustain a growing world population. The IFEEDER board of trustees only approves projects that are directly relevant to finding answers to these questions.

“You talk about sustainability, the role of animal agriculture, food supply and the safety of the food supply — these are the focus areas of IFEEDER,” Alan Gunderson, chair of the IFEEDER board of trustees and vice president, Vita Plus Corporation explains.

自从Ifeeder于2010年1月启动以来，它已授予了几项学生奖学金，并已向国家研究委员会提供了75,000美元的赠款，该委员会已授权一个新的猪营养委员会，该委员会正在更新1998年的猪营养需求。

董事会最近举行了年度会议，并暂时批准了两项新的研究计划。一种处理牛肉的营养需求和其他与沙门氏菌在饲料中。

Through support from companies and individuals within the feed industry, IFEEDER is poised to accomplish great things in the years ahead.

喂养ing the world

In 2009, the world’s population was 6.7 billion people. According to the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), by 2050, the world’s population is estimated to be 9.1 billion. This increase in population will result in an enormous increase in the world demand for food. Food production must double by 2050.

“Today the average U.S. farmer feeds 144 people,” says Richard Sellers, corporate secretary of IFEEDER and vice president of feed regulation and nutrition at AFIA. “In 1940, that number was only 19 people. We’ve made great progress but we have a long way to go. Today, one acre feeds 1.6 people. By 2050, one acre must feed four people. To feed the world in 2050, investment in agriculture must reach $83 billion per year. This equals a 50 percent increase in investment from current levels. The U.S. feed industry is a very critical part of this chain.”

只有通过当今的教育和基于科学的研究，我们的后代才能支持增加的世界粮食需求。

AFIA’s leaders’ and members’ commitment to finding ways to feed the world’s future population led way to the formation of IFEEDER.

研究所的诞生

Gunderson说：“如果您回到IFEEDER的成立，那是因为AFIA领导人研究了他们的活动，并且知道他们想专注于立法和监管角度。”“但是他们不想抛弃研究和教育，因此他们决定通过慈善基金会解决这些主题。”

Gunderson says after a year-long series of meetings and discussions, an AFIA task force created IFEEDER, an idea that was a long overdue in the feed industry. The institute was founded in 2009, but it received its 501c3 designation from the IRS in early 2010, which is when it was officially introduced to the public at the International Feed Expo in Atlanta.

从一开始，IFEEDER就开始解决这些具体挑战：

• a lack of public sector funding for key basic science and economic impact studies;
• the shortage of technical and professional employees that see the feed industry as a viable career option;
• resource limitations/restrictions (i.e. energy, water);
• consumer perceptions of food animal production;
• 联邦，州和地方政府的监管和立法政策；和
• 缺乏对可持续饲料制造实践的支持和资金。

ifeeder’s first grant was for $75,000, to the National Research Council which has authorized a new Swine Nutrition Committee. The committee is updating the 1998 Nutrient Requirements of Swine. Updating this work is essential to moving the feed industry toward a more efficient swine industry. In addition, this grant to NRC helped leverage an additional $225,000 in grants from other organizations, which will be paid out over a two-year period.

“We’re glad to have accomplished what we have in the past year, but there is more focus areas that we want to look at,” says Gunderson. “IFEEDER is a foundation that looks for opportunities to support and fund initiatives in education and research in a number of critical areas.”

Addressing some of those other critical areas, the IFEEDER board of trustees tentatively approved the funding of new research initiatives at its annual meeting at the 2011 International Feed Expo in Atlanta.

未来的研究

ifeederwill likely continue to fund the NRC studies, including a new Nutrient Requirements of Beef publication.

Gunderson说：“ NRC的NRC与我们为猪所做的非常相似，NRC汇集了现有的研究，以发布营养人员要求牛肉营养学家，以将其用作整理其喂养计划的基准。”

另一个暂定批准的项目将提供有关可接受级别的更多信息沙门氏菌在饲料中。

“We’re all aware that new regulations are in place,” says Gunderson. “But there is still a real need for defining different沙门氏菌serotypes, as well as an explanation of which are problematic and at what level it may become a problem. This is critically important to the feed industry, but without a coalition to leverage the governmental funds to get those answers, it won’t happen.”

So, IFEEDER has given its tentative approval to funding a new coalition AFIA created called the沙门氏菌in Feed Research Coalition. The goal of this group is to provide the USDA the funding to perform some feed-related沙门氏菌与其他大约10个小组进行研究，从而筹集了100,000美元的研究。

In addition to those projects, Sellers notes, “AFIA is preparing a roadmap for sustainability of the feed industry in the broad sense, meaning what can be done to sustain the feed industry long term. We expect AFIA will come to IFEEDER for funding this roadmap.”

In the future, the board of trustees hope to fund research in several other areas that will help guide food and feed regulations for the next generation.

“食品安全秘书伊丽莎白·哈根（Elisabeth A.“I couldn’t agree more because if we’re going feed the world going into the rest of this century and the next, we have to research what truly is the most efficient and sustainable way for us to produce the food that we need.”

例如，IFEEDER对经济研究有兴趣估算对该行业收入的低水平抗生素的禁令，以及对动物生产者社区的生产损失和收入损失和收入的更大问题。

潜在研究IFEEDER可能资助的另一个例子是定义商业动物饲料生产的碳足迹，以确定可持续性指数。消费者和客户希望了解这些信息，Ifeeder将为结果提供教育和宣传。

As a charitable organization, IFEEDER relies on donations from the industry to continue its mission. To date, IFEEDER has received donations or pledges from 24 companies and 17 individuals totaling more than $525,000. The board of trustees has set a goal to raise $2 million by the end of 2013.

在www.ifeeder.org上了解有关ifeeder的更多信息。