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Expanding Commodity Markets and Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge and Values into Climate Smart Agriculture

January 24, 2023 Heather Dawn Thompson, Director of the USDA Office of Tribal Relations

USDA’s Office of Tribal Relations is excited about the Department’s new investments through Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities. We’re investing a total of $3.1 billion in 141 projects. More than 20 tribes and tribal groups across the nation are partnering in many of these projects.

Climate Initiatives

Exploring New Careers and Growing the Organic Sector

January 19, 2023 Laura Gallagher, Program Analyst, NOP

In the field and at organic organizations across the U.S., students grew new career skills in summer 2022.

Initiatives

USDA Helps Promote the Power of Powwow Dancing and Career Possibilities

November 18, 2022 Stephanie Ho, Acting Communications Lead, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

Roland Begaye, 28, believes in family, friends, colleagues, and the power of powwow dancing. As a member of the Navajo Nation, in Arizona, he has had many opportunities to watch and participate as a skilled powwow dancer himself.

Equity Initiatives

Tribal Food Sovereignty a Focus of NAFDPIR Conference

November 14, 2022 Keri Bradford-Gomez (Choctaw), Senior Technical Advisor, Food and Nutrition Service

When you recognize the food on your plate, you recall memories of sharing meals with loved ones.

Equity Food and Nutrition Initiatives Nutrition Security

USDA Helps Tribal Student on Her Way to Realizing Goal of Working in Natural Resources

November 08, 2022 Stephanie Ho, Acting Communications Lead, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

Twentysomething Native American Angellisa Hoffman was born and raised in the White Mountain Apache tribe in Arizona. Her long-term goal is to have a job related to environmental or natural resources. For that vision to become a reality, she sees a university degree as a necessary part of her career...

Initiatives

Dr. Mireya Loza: Farmworker Historian Shaping the Future of Ag Industry Equity

September 29, 2022 Laura Crowell, Communications Lead, USDA Equity Commission

As an undergraduate student, Dr. Mireya Loza, Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University, wrote a paper about her Uncle Juan, a guest worker from Mexico who worked in the fields in California, Michigan and other places in the U.S.

Equity Initiatives

Todd Corley: USDA Equity Commission’s Change Management “Mad Scientist” with Credible Intentions

September 12, 2022 Laura Crowell, Communications Lead, USDA Equity Commission

While Todd Corley, senior vice president for Inclusion & Sustainability at Carhartt, didn’t begin his career in the change management or diversity and inclusion fields, the Jesuit concept of cura personalis or the “care of the whole person” certainly motivated his actions and interests. This concept...

Equity Initiatives

For the Love of Trees, Please Check Yours for Asian Longhorned Beetle

August 30, 2022 Jenny Lester Moffitt, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

I recently decided to go for a walk on a seasonably warm afternoon. I got out of my car at a wooded recreation area and immediately noticed how much cooler the air felt, thanks to the biggest plants on Earth – trees. From my years growing up on and then managing my family’s organic walnut farm I...

Forestry Initiatives Plants

Dr. Gina E. Eubanks: A People Person Helping the Peoples Department Build Equity

August 24, 2022 Laura Crowell, Communications Lead, USDA Equity Commission

The youngest of ten children, Gina Elaine Eubanks grew up in rural Clinton, Louisiana, participating in 4-H. Her 35-year career in higher education brought her back to her native state, where she serves as the associate vice president and program leader at the Louisiana State University AgCenter. In...

Equity Initiatives

Discovering Trends in the 2019 National Farmers Market Managers Survey

August 11, 2022 Ed Ragland, Economist, Marketing Services Division, Transportation and Marketing Program, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA

The 2019 National Farmers Market Survey conducted by the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) and the National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) collected data regarding the market practices of managers in 2019 from 10,000 farmers markets. Using trends and statistics found from these...

Farming Initiatives

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