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MALDEF Event Focuses on Improving Quality of Life in Latino Communities

March 22, 2011 Lisa Pino, Deputy Administrator, SNAP, Food and Nutrition Service

Representing USDA on a panel at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s (MALDEF) Fourth Annual Latino State of the Union in Washington, D.C. was a remarkable experience. The event examined how American public policy affects the Latino community, and assessed how future policy can...

Food and Nutrition

USDA Partners with a Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Corporation to Help Utah Families Build their Own Homes

March 22, 2011 Donna Birk, Utah USDA Public Information Officer

Congratulations were in order for fourteen Cache Valley families in Utah who have a place to call their own after building their own homes through the Self Help Program (MSHP) sponsored by USDA Rural Development. Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Corporation in Logan runs the program that helps put...

Rural

Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Find a Home at USDA

March 22, 2011 Katie Gorscak, Public Affairs Specialist, Foreign Agricultural Service

Peace Corps volunteers find themselves in a variety of locales covering a wide range of issues related to agriculture, education and health. And when they return, many of them have the opportunity to apply their Peace Corps experience to their professional lives back in the States. USDA’s Foreign...

Trade

Fort Bragg Food Bank

March 22, 2011 Mike Carnes, California Area Director for Rural Development

As Americans struggle to feed their families during these tough economic times, communities are relying on food banks to provide nutritional meals for disadvantaged households. For the northern California community of Mendocino County, residents in need are finding help in the Fort Bragg Food Bank...

Food and Nutrition Farming Rural

Stopping Hunger and Improving Nutrition When School is Out

March 22, 2011 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: In February of last year, I spoke at the National Press Club and outlined a vision and path for improving the health and well-being of kids across the nation by enhancing our nutrition assistance programs. I made a commitment that the Department of Agriculture...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

Turning an Eyesore into a Natural Beauty

March 22, 2011 Chris Guy, Public Affairs Specialist, Agricultural Research Service (ARS)

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blog. Check back each week as we showcase the stories and news from the agency’s rich science and research portfolio. Researchers with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have teamed up with...

Conservation Research and Science

Partners Launch No Kid Hungry in New Mexico

March 21, 2011 Andrea McCauley, Public Affairs Director, Southwest Region, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Staff from USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service Southwest regional office was pleased to join the national non-profit, Share Our Strength, in Albuquerque, for the launch of their No Kid Hungry campaign to end childhood hunger in New Mexico. The No Kid Hungry campaign is a public-private partnership...

Food and Nutrition

Rural Development Helps Tribal Communities Grow

March 21, 2011 Dallas Tonsager, Under Secretary for Rural Development, USDA

As President Obama challenges Americans to win the future, we at USDA are implementing ways to do so by helping tribal communities across the country out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build our global competition. Starting in rural America, but more specifically within tribal communities, we see an...

USDA Results Rural Technology

What Do Cows and Birds Have in Common?

March 21, 2011 Tracey Jean Wolfe, NRCS Nevada

“What’s good for the birds is good for the cows,” says Duane Coombs, ranch manager for Smith Creek Ranch in central Nevada. That’s why Coombs and his neighbor on the other side of the Desatoya Mountain Range are working to restore habitat for the western sage-grouse, a chicken-sized bird that is...

Conservation

USDA Firma Acuerdo Para Proveer Redes de Oportunidades a las Instituciones Educativas Hispanas

March 18, 2011 Tanya Brown, Writer/Editor, Office of External Affairs, USDA Farm Service Agency

USDA no está hablando solamente, sino que también toma medidas para ayudar a los hispanoamericanos. El Departamento puso un pie al frente hoy cuando el Secretario de Agricultura Federal Tom Vilsack y Sandra V. Serrano de la Asociación Hispana de Colegios y Universidades, firmaron un Acuerdo de...

Initiatives Spanish