Posted on 03/16/2025 4:27:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Two labs at Kansas State University that work on global food security are scheduled to shut down in less than a month because the Trump administration has cut off funding.
K-State will shed about 10 jobs. Abroad, hundreds of low-income students that were recruited to advance sustainable agriculture in their countries will lose funding to go to college.
The two Feed the Future Innovation Labs will close on April 12, K-State announced in a news release. The closures are related to the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.
The lab was paying for about 275 students in very low-income countries to study agricultural techniques in their countries. This includes 120 undergraduate and 30 master's students in Haiti, and more in Cambodia, Ethiopia and Guatemala.
“ It’s devastating, it’s sad and it’s really heartbreaking,” said professor Vara Prasad, director of the Climate Resilient Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab. “We are talking about students, their dreams, their degrees and the livelihoods of people.”
The students generally are supporting many family members and they were learning valuable techniques to feed their communities. Now Prasad fears they will not have the resources to finish their degrees.
The lab hustled to find a way to continue its work, but the financial burden was too high.
That’s partly because the lab has more than $500 million in unpaid bills because USAID never reimbursed it for work dating back to October.
(Excerpt) Read more at kcur.org ...
“Climate Resilient Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab”
Going, going gone.
The leftists can worship their icons on their own dime.
Anything with these buzzwords is a waste of money anyway and needs to be defunded.
Oh well ..
I can see how devastating this can be for haiti, losing their future farmers and all. How about some private funding to support Haitian farmers?
Are these USAID programs doing any good at all?
That’s the wrong question to ask.
The United States is a debtor nation. We are heavily in debt. No person - or nation - in such a position should be borrowing even more money to spend on optional programs.
So the right question to ask is: Can we afford these programs?
The answer is no.
>>the lab has more than $500 million in unpaid bills because USAID never reimbursed it for work dating back to October.
The taxpayers were shelling out half a BILLION dollars every 4 months for this leftist drivel?
They can’t do something the Egyptians were doing three thousand years ago? We gotta show them how to plant a field AND we gotta feed them too?
let the Clintons Obamas and Soros groups step in.
remember when the United States of America had the best ag methods? remember when the American people, out of the goodness of our hearts freely DONATED to organizations that helped other countries instead of our illustrious CONgresscritters being lobbied to TAX AND SPEND our money to marginally “help” other countries...for kickbacks to them, their cronies and terrorist organizations that make sure more funding will ALWAYS be needed? only by cutting off the money faucet to congress will end this once and for all and only by permanently ending the income TAX will that be possible. no excuses!
FRAUD!!
“Two labs at Kansas State University that work on global food security are scheduled to shut down in less than a month because the Trump administration has cut off funding.”
Good, because they were only trying to figure out how to feed us fake food and get rid of real food.
“Hundreds of students abroad are caught up in USAID cuts ...”
Well folks, THIS is what you get when a bunch of criminals get to administer US agencies and abuse their authority!
Should’a thought of that when they were stuffing their pockest! 😡
37,000,000,000,000 in debt. We have to cut spending on foreign ‘aid’.
NIH is a monstrosity—and the universities have been riding high in recent years.
Here is a story about “lacrosse lefties” Duke:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-cuts-research-funding-nih-duke-7f24b33bbad54490583520536ab40e0c
If we can keep slashing NIH we can break these leftie universities.
Remember ehwn Deep State called it hunger...
Then people found out Deep State defined hunger as going with one meal once a month.
Then the scam was renamed “food security”.
Wanna know how thats defined?
Per the World Bank...
“Based on the 1996 World Food Summit, food security is defined when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.”
SNORT.
This is really good news. Ending a huge waste of my money.
I need myself it to send my own grandchildren to college.
K State has over $1bln endowment. They can pay for it.
If the students REALLY cared they would work for free
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