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Commission on Food, Environment, & Renewable Resources (CFERR)

The Commission on Food, Environment, and Renewable Resources focuses on broad cross-cutting issues related to agriculture, food, fiber, health and human sciences, natural resources (ecology, fish and wildlife, forestry, mineral resources and water resources), oceans, atmosphere, climate and veterinary medicine in the functional areas of research, extension and teaching. The commission seeks to formulate and implement an integrated federal-relations program and formulate Congressional budget recommendations in these high-priority areas of national concern, as well as to forge partnerships with government agencies whose mission areas are congruent with the commission’s activities.

Board on Agriculture Assembly (BAA)
The Board on Agriculture Assembly (BAA) is a unit of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Commission on Food, Environment, and Renewable Resources (CFERR). The purpose of the BAA is the promotion of agriculture in all of its phases (food, environment, agriculture, natural resources, and international) in the state universities and land-grant colleges of the states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories of the Pacific, and the U. S. Virgin Islands.

Board on Health and Human Sciences (BHHS)
The Board on Health and Human Sciences (BHHS), is an association of administrators of higher education units responsible for research/discovery, extension/outreach, and teaching/learning programs in the human sciences at universities across the country. Their members are committed to a national agenda that unifies disciplines within and beyond the human sciences to enrich people’s lives.

Board on Natural Resources (BNR)
The Natural Resources Board focuses on university-based programs dealing with fish and wildlife, forests, minerals, water and related environmental issues and provides leadership in communicating with the U.S. Congress, federal agencies, and private organizations that have programs dealing with natural resources and the environment.

Board on Oceans, Atmosphere, and Climate (BOAC)
The Board on Oceans, Atmosphere and Climate’s (BOAC) primary responsibility is to develop a federal relations program for issues relating to the marine, ocean, and atmospheric sciences.

Board on Veterinary Medicine (BVM)
The Board on Veterinary Medicine (BVM) membership includes the administrators of veterinary medicine and veterinary science departments at APLU-member institutions.

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FOCUS is an update from APLU’s Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources office to provide timely, relevant information and actions items to CFERR and its member boards and sections.

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