WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) investments in research, education, and extension projects are resulting in transformative discoveries to meet the U.S.'s significant societal challenges.
"This has been a tremendous year of outcomes as a result of NIFA's collaborations with leading scientists, policymakers, and extension professionals to identify and deliver innovative solutions to the most pressing local and global problems," said NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy.
As 2017 comes to an end, Ramaswamy highlighted a few NIFA-funded projects representative of work its grantees have accomplished in a number of areas:
Maximizing agricultural productivity
Providing a safe, nutritious, and secure food supply
Responsible agricultural stewardship
"The partnership of NIFA and its grantees is helping American agriculture become more competitive, bolstering the U.S. economy by creating jobs, enhancing the safety of our nation's food supply, improving nutrition, sustaining natural resources and the environment, and building energy independence," Ramaswamy added. "We look forward to the great work of our partners in 2018."
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NIFA's mission is to invest in and advance agricultural research, education, and extension to solve societal challenges. NIFA's investments in transformative science directly support the long-term prosperity and global preeminence of U.S. agriculture. To learn more about NIFA's impact on agricultural sciences, visit http://www.nifa.usda.gov/Impacts , sign up for email updates, or follow us on Twitter @USDA_NIFA , #NIFAImpacts.
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