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Food Policy in the New Administration Elanor Starmer Research Analyst Food & Water Watch Tom Vilsack, Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary Rajiv Shah, Jim Miller, Research, Homer Lee Kevin Mike Doyle, Farm & Foreign Ag
Jim Miller, Farm & Foreign Ag Services Kevin Concannon, Food & Nutrition Rajiv Shah, Research, Education and Economics Mike Doyle, Food Safety?
Tom Vilsack, Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary
Homer Lee Wilkes, Natural Resources & Environment Dallas Tonsager, Rural Development
Edward Avalos, Ag Marketing
Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein, Deputy Commissioner Stephen Sundlof, Director, Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
What does the USDA do?
Farm and Foreign Ag Services division: The people’s bank
Credit for farmers and processors Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program – low- interest loans, grants for training, land link programs Emergency assistance and commodity payments
What does the USDA do?
Rural development division
Funds ATTRA, great resource on sustainable ag: http://attra.ncat.org/ Gives Local and Regional Food Enterprise Loans – builds local food system infrastructure Value-Added Producer Grant program: Scale up marketing of local foods!
What does the USDA do?
Natural Resources and Environment Division: Land management and conservation
NRCS: Payments to farmers for environmental improvements Financial support for transitioning to organic Runs Forest Service
What does the USDA do?
Research, Education and Economics division: Agricultural research and extension
Research money to public universities Organic and sustainable ag research and extension
What does the USDA do?
Food and Nutrition Services division: Nutrition programs
School food WIC, food stamps Farmers Market Nutrition Program Develop dietary guidelines
What does the USDA do?
Marketing and Regulatory Programs division: Marketing U.S. farm products
Checkoff programs – generic advertising funded by producers and run by USDA Implementing organic and other standards GIPSA: Preventing unfair corporate practices
What does the USDA do?
Food Safety Inspection Service
Inspects meat and poultry processing facilities
Rayne Pegg, AMS Administrator Mike Doyle, potential head, Food Safety Inspection Service Rajiv Shah, USDA Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics
Kathleen Merrigan, USDA Deputy Secretary Lisa Bertelson, Special Assistant, Marketing and Regulatory Programs Kevin Concannon, Under Secretary, Food & Nutrition
GIPSA Joshua Sharfstein, FDA Deputy Commissioner