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Open Data Can Help Feed a Hungry World

August 10, 2016 Dr. Cathie Woteki, Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Today with over 7 billion people on Earth, nearly 800 million people struggle with debilitating hunger and malnutrition in every corner of the globe. That’s one in every nine people, with the majority being women and children. Experts tell us we currently produce enough food to feed everyone, so why...

Food and Nutrition

Children Worldwide Celebrate International School Meals Day

March 02, 2016 Dr. Katie Wilson, Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

March is National Nutrition Month. Throughout the month, USDA will be highlighting results of our efforts to improve access to safe, healthy food for all Americans and supporting the health of our next generation. The upsurge in healthy eating and food security campaigns is really resonating with...

Food and Nutrition

Financing for Development Conference Boosts Support for Open Data

July 15, 2015 Dr. Catherine Woteki, USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, leaders across the globe, in the public, non-governmental, and private sectors, committed to sharing and using data and to investing in the capacity to collect and analyze this data for sustainable...

Technology

Birds, Butterflies, Dragonflies and Bats

April 21, 2015 Karin Theophile, U.S. Forest Service

When it comes to the U.S. Forest Service, it’s not always about trees. Sometimes it’s all about the birds, the dragonflies and the butterflies. Oh, and the bats. At least, that’s what it was all about during a ceremony last month recognizing some great contributions from U.S. Forest Service and...

Forestry

U.S. College Students Earn Title of "Earth's Best" in International Soils Judging Contest

July 07, 2014 Amy Overstreet, Natural Resources Conservation Service

While many tuned in to watch the World Cup to see which team would become the globe’s soccer champs, others watched a competition of a different kind: one that named the earth’s best identifiers of slices of earth. College students from the United States competed with teams from nine other countries...

Conservation

USDA Invites Schools to Celebrate International School Meals Day on March 6

February 10, 2014 Janey Thornton, Deputy Under Secretary, Food Nutrition and Consumer Services

Last year, the first International School Meals Day was held on March 8. It was a great success and brought teachers and students in both the United States and United Kingdom together to connect on one of the most critical issues facing the world today – child nutrition. This year, International...

Food and Nutrition

Successful Launch of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative

November 12, 2013 Jaime Adams, USDA Office of the Chief Scientist

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA's rich science and research portfolio. Exciting times are ahead for the future of global agriculture, development, and health. On October 31, the US delegation...

Research and Science

Join the 'Data Revolution', Help Lay the Groundwork for Sustainable Agriculture

June 26, 2013 Catherine Woteki, USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics

On June 8 th, during the Nutrition for Growth event in London, the United Kingdom and United States governments announced plans to launch the Global Open Data Initiative for Agriculture and Nutrition. This, in turn, built on the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture conference in...

Food and Nutrition Technology

The New Green British Invasion

May 14, 2013 Robert Westover, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

The U.S. Forest Service Green Team wants you to know that Green Office Week has arrived from across the Atlantic. The first Green Office Week was launched in 2009 in Great Britain in response to research showing that United Kingdom employees felt they were being held back from being environmentally...

Conservation Forestry

U.S. Exporters Score in London, Thanks to USDA Programs

May 11, 2011 Katie Gorscak, Public Affairs Specialist, Foreign Agricultural Service

The United Kingdom (UK) has long played an important role in U.S. agricultural exports. This history dates back to the completion of the Erie Canal in the early 1800s, which linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic seaboard, significantly increasing the export of food, particularly Midwestern wheat...

Trade
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