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A few short weeks week ago we announced an exciting partnership with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) to kindle innovation and creativity and offering unique opportunities for App

Today marks the release of the Feed the Future Initiative Guide during the Chicago Council of Global Affairs’ Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security. This guide lays out the implementation strategy for the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative. USDA has been...

By Kevin Concannon, Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, USDA

By Liz Sawyer, reporter, Waterford Kettering High School newspaper

By Audrey Rowe, FNS Deputy Administrator for Special Nutrition Programs I’ve had a chance to see a great deal of impressive schools during my tour of the country to speak about Child Nutrition Reauthorization. My recent visit to Waterford Village Elementary was no exception. Witnessing their...

By Darlene Barnes, Mountain Plain Regional Administrator, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 12, 2010

Darlene Barnes, Mountain Plains Regional Administrator, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service

Today, driving out to visit the Castillo farm in Plant City, Florida, Secretary Tom Vilsack and his staff took a moment to stop at a roadside stand selling a wide variety of local produce.

By Janet Nuzum, Associate Administrator for USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service

The USDA National Farmers Market Directory, affectionately called the “farmers market census” has extended its deadline for receiving information about the country’s farmers markets through June 4. In 2009, the USDA counted over 5,200 operational farmers markets in the country.