The National Coalition for Food and Agriculture Research (www.ncfar.org) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, stakeholder-driven coalition of more than 114 members, including the Institute of Food Technologists and 29 other major national food and agriculture organizations and more than 40 universities. National C-FAR was founded on January 30, 2001, to increase and enhance national funding of United States food and agriculture research by doubling federal support over the next five years and to expand …