Food Security

UGA, Italy Develop Dual Graduate Degree Program

The world will have many more mouths to feed in the next few decades – projected to be more than 9 billion by 2050 – but the amount of arable land is not getting any larger, droughts are taking their toll on fresh water, and there are fewer experienced farmers to do the work. How will food get on the table?

EFNEP: Delivering nutrition education to limited-resource families

The 2015 EFNEP Conference brought together representatives from land-grant universities throughout the U.S. to receive training that they can take back to use in university programs.

NIFA grant teaches beginning urban farmers innovative ways to grow fresh food

USDA Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden visited a central New Orleans neighborhood to see firsthand how a NIFA-funded project is training urban farmers.