GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, Nov. 5, 2021 – At the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) this week, United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack underscored the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s support for President Biden’s whole-of-government approach to combating climate change and creating good-paying jobs and economic growth in the United States.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Nov. 3, 2021 – European Union Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski and United States Secretary of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued the following statement on a newly created transatlantic collaboration platform on agriculture designed to take on the global challenges of sustainability and climate change.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/On November 2, at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the United States and the United Arab Emirates officially launched the Climate Innovation Mission (AIM for Climate) with 31 countries and more than 48 non-governmental partners. In remarks at the World Leaders Summit, President Biden announced that the United States intends to raise $ 1 billion in climate-smart farming and food system innovation over five years (2021-2025). This announcement represents the highest level of public commitment by the United States to date and the first commitment made by any U.S. federal agency. It is also co-chairing the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Investment Fund for Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Systems (GICFSAF), established with US \ 60 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). To accumulate $ 1.5 billion annually by 2030. These funds will be matched by a total of 1.9 billion from public and private sources. US \ 60 million from the United States will allow GICFSAF to invest in small, new and scalable businesses.
AIM for Climate is led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and supported by the White House, the State Department, USAID, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Its main objectives are to adopt climate-smart farming and food systems and to stimulate climate-smart economic growth. In 2020, the United States will host AIM for Climate’s Global Executive Summit, bringing together about 400 business and government leaders from more than 40 countries to discuss and develop best practices and frameworks for implementing climate-smart agriculture and food systems. Focus on scaling-up. US \ $ 1 billion will be matched by private and public partners to fund AIM for climate in developing countries, and the funding is in addition to the support already pledged.
In parallel, the U.S. government has announced a \ 10 million USAID Climate Resilient Development Program administered by the World Agriculture Fund and focused on scaling-up climate-smart farming and food systems. The funds will be directed to GICFSAF and AIM for Climate, a significant portion of which will be allocated to the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA), with an initial distribution of 3.5 million. GRA was launched in January 2018 with the aim of developing and deploying improved agricultural practices, market interventions, technology and climate measures such as data and education.
An important part of AIM for Climate and GRA's strategy is to increase the impact of the Nutrition and Climate for Agriculture (A4NC) program, which currently operates in 32 countries. The program was launched in 2013 as a multi-donor-led response to the critical problem of micro-nutrient malnutrition and aims to increase market access, improve practices and enable it to adapt to climate change. The A4NC program has been extremely successful in contributing to achieving MDG targets 1, 4, 5, 6 and 8 and has recently been extended to 2020. Currently, the total amount allocated to A4NC in 33 countries is 9 million, of which USAID is the major financier, with a total grant of more than 6 5.6 million.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2021 – Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released the below statement following President Biden’s announcement of the framework for Build Back Better.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today the appointment of 14 members to the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics (NAREEE) Advisory Board. Eight members are new appointments and six members are re-appointments.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced an investment of more than $243 million in grants to support specialty crops, including fruits, vegetables, tree nuts and nursery crops through two USDA programs – the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program and the Specialty Crop Research Initiative grants program.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2021 – Registration is now open for the 98th annual Agricultural Outlook Forum (AOF), the largest annual meeting and premiere event of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The two-day event will be held virtually on Feb. 24-25, 2022.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2021 – On November 5, 2021 at 3 p.m. EDT, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will release selected tables prepared for the upcoming USDA Agricultural Projections to 2031 report. USDA will release tables containing long-term supply, use, and price projections to 2031 for major U.S. crops and livestock products, as well as supporting U.S. and international macroeconomic assumptions. The tables use the short-term forecasts from the October 12, 2021 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report as the starting point.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2021 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that more than 50 organizations and countries have officially declared their support for the Coalition on Sustainable Productivity Growth for Food Security and Resource Conservation (SPG) Coalition, which the United States launched at the United Nations Food Systems Summit in September.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/GENESEO, Ill., Oct. 22, 2021 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a significant expansion of access to high-speed internet, health care and educational services for millions of rural Americans nationwide. Today’s announcement continues to move forward President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda by prioritizing economic growth in rural America and investing in the backbone of our country – the middle class.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/AMES, IOWA, Oct. 20, 2021 – Mexican Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development Victor Villalobos and United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack issued the following statement at the conclusion of their bilateral meeting in Ames, Iowa.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 2021 – Today the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior announced actions to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and surrounding watershed in northeastern Minnesota, a unique natural wonder and one of the jewels of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2021 – Deputy Agriculture Secretary Dr. Jewel Bronaugh announced today approximately $13 million in new funding opportunities to support market innovation in wood products and wood energy. The announcement came during a “Leaders for the Built Environment” virtual event and kicks off National Forest Products Week as proclaimed by President Biden.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, October 19, 2021 - Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the winners of the Next Gen Fertilizer Innovations Challenge, the second of a two-part, joint USDA-EPA Partnership and Competition on Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers (EEFs) to Advance Agricultural Sustainability in the United States. The goal of the competition is to improve the efficiency of fertilizers to increase crop yields while reducing the impacts of fertilizers on the environment.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing the appointment of 13 new members and 17 returning members to the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF).
Members of the committee are chosen based on their expertise in microbiology, risk assessment, epidemiology, public health, food science, and other relevant disciplines. One individual affiliated with a consumer group is included in the membership of the committee to serve in a representational capacity.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced that it is mobilizing a stronger, and more comprehensive effort to reduce Salmonella illnesses associated with poultry products. The agency is initiating several key activities to gather the data and information necessary to support future action and move closer to the national target of a 25% reduction in Salmonella illnesses.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2021 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, Stacy Dean and USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Administrator Cindy Long today hosted a virtual listening session with 19 school food industry executives to discuss their critical role in strengthening access to nutritious foods for school meals programs, now and into the future.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2021 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $272 million to modernize rural drinking water and wastewater infrastructure (PDF, 280 KB) for 270,000 people living in rural communities across 37 states and Puerto Rico.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2021 – During a visit to Riverdale Elementary in Riverdale, Maryland today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is joining with students, parents, schools, communities, and partners across the nation in recognition of National School Lunch Week, as proclaimed by President Biden.
USDA - Latest News Releases https://www.usda.gov/WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2021 – Following a press release from President Joe Biden announcing the appointment of several regional appointments, the U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the appointments of five Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Directors and seven Rural Development (RD) State Directors.
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