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Critical Need to Increase Food Security in Rural Alaska

September 20, 2023 Cindy Long, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service Administrator September 13, 2023

The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring families have consistent and equitable access to healthy, safe, and affordable foods—an effort highlighted during the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, held last year.

Equity Food and Nutrition Nutrition Security

Reflecting on and Improving on Tribal Programs at FNS

September 19, 2023 Cindy Long, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service Administrator

Each opportunity to engage directly with the people we serve through our programs provides moments to learn and reflect. For far too long, decisions about the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations, also known as FDPIR, were made for tribes rather than with tribes or even by tribes. But...

Food and Nutrition

FNCS Supports Food Sovereignty of Tribal Nations

August 01, 2023 Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services

Summer is a beautiful time to travel the country and visit with partners, and I am delighted, humbled and honored to have visited the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, and Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe last month. It was inspiring and impressive to see how the tribes...

Equity Food and Nutrition Nutrition Security

FNS Honors Traditions and Supports the Sovereignty of Tribal Nations

August 18, 2022 Alison Hard, Senior Policy Advisor for the Food and Nutrition Service

Tribal nations across what we now consider the Great Plains relied for millennia on their buffalo relatives for food, medicine, clothing, tools, and shelter. Yet today it is hard to find buffalo meat on school meal trays in the very areas where they once sustained Native communities. The Food and...

Equity Food and Nutrition Nutrition Security

Fire and Bud Sprouts: New Study Looks at How Fire Affects Plants on our National Grasslands

November 15, 2017 Veronica Hinke, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

Life on our national grasslands, some of the most distinct and treasured ecosystems in the world, depends on regrowth from buds, rather than seeds. Those endless expanses of grass exist because of plant buds, and at this time of year grasses have finished forming buds beneath the earth’s surface...

Forestry
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