Emerging university programs and resistance to change

In spite of this funding, there is a continuing trend in agricultural universities towards education and research in two new but totally different directions  

1 basic biochemistry and molecular biology with the goal of designing higher yielding crops and animals for the future and 

2 conservation biology and ecology with a focus on natural systems and preservation of biodiversity and the environment. 

Both paths foster even more disciplinary specialisation, with fewer faculty members 

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