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NIFA Invests $300K in Response to Extreme Weather Events Across the U.S.
NIFA has funded — through the Rapid Response to Extreme Weather Events Across Food and Agriculture Systems program — a hurricane-related project at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.
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NIFA Invests $5M for Higher Education Challenge
The purpose of the Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program is to strengthen institutional capacities, including curriculum, faculty, scientific instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student recruitment and retention, to respond to identified state, regional, national, or international educational needs in the food and agricultural sciences, or in rural economic, community, and business development.
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Living the Farm Dream
This piece was adapted from a piece in the Extension Administrators Newsletter.
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Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Cancer Patients
Originally published on Landgrantimpacts.org Increasing fruit and vegetable intake in cancer patients – Land Grant Impacts.
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Scientists Across the Country Working to Create More Nutrient-Dense Diets
Originally published on LandgrantImpacts.org NH-Summary6-Precision-Nutrition-newBP.pdf (landgrantimpacts.org)
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NIFA Supported Research Tackles Weedy Problem
Pesticides may be used, but that’s often not the best choice as some pesticides can go beyond targeting weeds and kill crops and beneficial insects.
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Land-grant Universities Improve Local Food and Nutrition Security
Originally appeared on Landgrantimpacts.org, FS-Summary1-LocalFoodSecurity.pdf_corrected-newBP.pdf (landgrantimpacts.org)
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EFNEP Changing Lives
Using a peer-led education model to support program participants’ efforts toward self-sufficiency and nutritional health and well-being, EFNEP remains at the forefront of nutrition education efforts to reduce nutrition insecurity of low-income families and youths today.
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Community Nutrition Programs Improve Healthful Outcomes
Launched in 1969, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s EFNEP is the nation’s first nutrition education program for low-income populations and remains at the forefront of nutrition education efforts to reduce nutrition insecurity of low-income families and youths today.
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Texas A&M Meat Scientist Developing ‘No Nitrite-Added’ Cured Meats
The following story originally appeared on AgriLife Today and is reprinted here with permission.
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NIFA Invests $9.4M in Urban, Indoor, and other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education and Extension Initiative
NIFA has announced funding of more than $9.4 million for 12 projects through the Urban, Indoor, and Other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education and Extension Initiative.
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NIFA Celebrates National Ag Day
NIFA Celebrates National Ag Day
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What is a Forest?
What is a Forest?
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Tribal Youth Use ‘Seed Bombs’ to Heal Wildfire-Damaged Lands
Tribal Youth Use ‘Seed Bombs’ to Heal Wildfire-Damaged Lands