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HEP/CAMP Intern Draws Inspiration from USDA

September 05, 2024 Daniela De Santiago-Zuniga, Intern, Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

The National HEP/CAMP Association partners with the USDA to provide students from farmworker backgrounds a paid, 10-week internship in Washington, D.C.

Equity Initiatives

Reflections from the Road in Pennsylvania: Charting the Path Forward with Urban Agriculture and the Next Generation

September 05, 2024 USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young

Northeast Regional Equity Convening hosted by the USDA and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

Equity Research and Science

Dr. Jennie L. Stephens: Advocating for Heirs’ Property and the Future of Family Land

September 05, 2024 The Equity Team

For nearly 20 years, Dr. Jennie L. Stephens has been a champion in breaking down barriers so that families can build generational wealth and grow working landscapes with their inherited property. South Carolina’s Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation (CHPP™), where Equity Commission Agriculture...

Equity Initiatives

CAPAL Intern Driven to Change Food Insecurity

September 05, 2024 MD Sharman, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

Nichole Espineli, a master's student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, draws on her experience with food insecurity to work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Equity Initiatives

USDA Thinks Outside the Box at Inaugural Innovation Event

September 05, 2024 Donald Bitner, Chief Technology Officer

USDA’s diverse mission requirements in technology and tools make creativity essential in leveraging today’s challenges into opportunities for innovation.

Technology

1890 National Scholar’s Roots Run Deep in Agriculture

September 05, 2024 MD Sharman, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

When Kiera Sherrod was young, her grandfather often came to her house in Albany, Georgia to plant crops in her parents’ backyard for her family to maintain and harvest. This ritual also sparked the beginning of his granddaughter’s interest in agriculture.

Equity Initiatives

WOAH designates NBAF as Collaborating Centre for Genomic Monitoring of Viral Swine Diseases

September 05, 2024

Written by Stephanie Jacques stephanie.jacques@usda.gov NBAF Office of Communications Website: usda.gov/nbaf/media Manhattan, Kan., Aug. 21, 2024 — The World Organisation for Animal Health, or WOAH, has designated the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, or NBAF...

Office of Ethics

September 05, 2024

The USDA Office of Ethics is a small office with a large responsibility in a department of over 100,000 employees. Whether you are working the soil in forests, making sure school kids have nutritious lunches each day, conducting research to solve agricultural problems, or serving the American public in any myriad ways we do at USDA, the Office of Ethics is here to help you navigate ethics laws. The office of Ethics provides training and advice to help USDA personnel understand the rules that govern their conduct as government employees. 

The People's Garden

August 29, 2024

The simple act of planting a garden can have big impacts -- from building a more diverse and resilient local food system to empowering communities to address issues like nutrition access and climate change.

Digital Transformation Takes Root at USDA

August 16, 2024 Fátima Terry, Deputy Director, USDA Digital Service

The seeds of digital transformation are taking root as application reviews for our agency’s first Digital Service (DS) Fellows cohort are in progress. By establishing a dedicated fellow team at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), we will be able to improve access to USDA resources and...

Technology