Skip to main content
Skip to main content

USDA Blog


Showing: 1 - 3 of 3 Results
Applied Filters

California's Clean Energy Pioneers Come in Black and White

May 27, 2016 Sam Rikkers, Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative Service

California has a pioneering spirit. Rural folks there have been on the frontier for generations. That frontier may have been gold mines and cattle grasslands in the past, but today that frontier is the very air, soil and water of California itself. Climate change is transforming California like it’s...

Energy Rural

Nutritional Security Through Sustainable Agriculture

May 27, 2016 Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, Director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Nutritional security is defined as “a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.” Achieving nutritional security in the...

Food and Nutrition

Northern Plains Regional Climate Hub Extension and Outreach Team Develop Regional Efforts

May 27, 2016 Windy K. Kelley, University of Wyoming Extension and Justin D. Derner, ARS

All this month we will be taking a look at what a changing climate means to Agriculture. The ten regional USDA Climate Hubs were established to synthesize and translate climate science and research into easily understood products and tools that land managers can use to make climate-informed...

USDA Results