Program Long-Term Outcomes • NIFA’s Community & Rural Development program: – Promotes excellence in research, academics and outreach that fosters rural vitality and sustainability, utilizing the • Regional Rural Development Centers as a primary vehicle to: – Enhance workforce development and employability; – Invigorate economic and community development; and – Increase rural health and safety.
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Program Long-Term OutcomesNIFAs Community & Rural
Development program:Promotes excellence in research, academics and
outreach that fosters rural vitality and sustainability, utilizing
theRegional Rural Development Centers as a primary vehicle
to:Enhance workforce development and employability;Invigorate
economic and community development; andIncrease rural health and
safety.
1Workforce Development and EmployabilitySelf-employment
strategiese-commerceRural skills gaps
Economic and Community DevelopmentStronger Economies Together
(USDA RD)What Works?Food Systems (AFRI grant)Entrepreneurial growth
strategiesInnovations in agriculture
webinarsBroadband/e-commerce
Rural Health and SafetyCAPE (SAMHSA)Ready Communities (Federal
Emergency Management Agency)RIDGE (USDA Economic Research
Service)
System Capacity DevelopmentRural Development Webinars,
Trainings, and Workshops for LGUsPost-Docs & Graduate
StudentsNational Agricultural and Rural Development Policy Center
(NARDeP)Turning the Tide on PovertyTraining for other USDA
Agencies
