National Institute of Food and Agriculture

National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Agency overview

Headquarters	1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C.
Agency executive	Sonny Ramaswamy, Director
Website	nifa.usda.gov/

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is a U.S. Federal government body whose creation was mandated in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. It is intended to consolidate all federally funded agricultural research, and will be subordinate to the Department of Agriculture. It replaced the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service in 2009.

The mission of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is to stimulate and fund the research and technological innovations that will enhance American agriculture and make it more productive and environmentally sustainable while ensuring the economic viability of agriculture and production. The Institute was developed as a result of a task force chaired by William Henry Danforth and appointed by then Secretary of Agriculture, Ann M. Veneman. The Danforth Task Force recommended that Congress authorize the creation of NIFA as a way to strengthen agriculture research and to attract additional highly competitive research scientists to this field of endeavor. A growing program in competitive research grants will be a hallmark of the new agency.^[1] The creation of NIFA strengthened USDA's competitive research portfolio by replacing the National Research Initiative with the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. NIFA awards research funding through a combination of competitive grants and funds allocated to states under statutory formulas.

References

^ http://www.danforthcenter.org/newsmedia/leaflet/Danforth_Leaflet_Nov_2009.pdf

Description upon appointment of Director Ramaswamy from USDA.

External links

Official website
National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the Federal Register

Research and development agencies of the United States federal government

Independent agencies

Agriculture

Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Economic Research Service (ERS)
United States Forest Service Research and Development (R&D)

Commerce

Defense

Air Force	Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT)

Army	Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)

Navy	Office of Naval Research (ONR) Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) Naval Warfare Centers Air (NAWC) Surface (NSWC) Undersea (NUWC) Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance (NCCOSC) Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)

Other	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU)

Education

Energy

Office of Science (DOE SC)
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
National Laboratories

Health and Human Services

Homeland Security

Directorate for Science and Technology (S&T)
Coast Guard Research & Development Center (CG RDC)

Interior

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Transportation

Veterans Affairs

Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development (ORD)

Multi-agency initiatives

U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD)
National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)

Policy-making bodies

Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) (defunct)
House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Categories

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United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural organizations based in the United States

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