SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: NC1036 : Research and Education Support for the Renewal of an Agriculture of the Middle
- Period Covered: 10/01/2006 to 09/01/2007
- Date of Report: 11/22/2006
- Annual Meeting Dates: 10/20/2006 to 10/22/2006
Participants
Feise, Chris (feise@wsu.edu),Washington State University; Painter,Kate (kpainter@wsu.edu),Washington State University; Francis,Charles (cfrancis@unlnotes.unl.edu),University of Nebraska; Kirschenman, Fred (leopold1@iastate.edu),Iowa State University; Lev, Larry (larry.lev@oregonstate.edu),Oregon State University; Porter,Paul (pporter@umn.edu),University of Minnesota; Hardesty, Sermain (shermain@primal.ucdavis.edu)University of California-Davis; Clancy, Kate (klclancy@comcast.com),Union of Concerned Scientists;Conner, David (connerd@msu.edu), Michigan State University; Hinrichs, Clare (chinrichs@psu.edu),Penn State University; Stevenson, Steve (gwsteven@wisc.edu),University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The inaugural meeting of the technical committee for NC1036 was held in Minneapolis, MN from October 20-22, 2006. Eleven committee members were in attendance, including scientists from land-grant universities, Cooperative Extension, and non-profit organizations. The following meeting goals were addressed:
--Acquaint all committee members with the national initiative to renew an agriculture-of the-middle & the role of NC1036 to provide research-based information and education to support the business development and policy change components of the larger initiative;
--Identify priority research/education areas and frameworks for the committee,in dialogue with representatives of the business development and policy working groups:
1. Time frames (short term, medium term, and long term research),
2. Bio-physical and socio-economic issues, and
3. Synchronized research across food supply chains or across public policy
campaigns;
--Identify research/education capacities/interests represented on the committee;
--Share recently funded research proposals involving committee members;
--Dialogue with USDA regarding research & education funding opportunities;
--Discuss communication/project creation among committee members (and other scientists) for short, medium, and long term research projects;
--Identify research/education capacities not represented on the committee & generate a plan to recruit scientists with these capacities/interests; and
--Establish organizational structure and revolving leadership for NC1036.
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Accomplishments
Accomplishments include:
1. Three research/outreach/education proposals from NC1036 committee members successfully funded from the USDA/CSREES/NRI Program, Vitality for Small and Medium-Sized Farms. (See attachment to the Minues section of this report.) Cummulative funding from these three projects exceeds $1,000,000.
2. Consultation relationships with program officers in USDA's CSREES and ARS divisions have been established. It is anticipated that these relationships will result in increased attention and collaboration involving research and education pertaining to agriculture-of-the-middle issues.