NIFA Urban Agriculture Stakeholder Feedback

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The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future's Food Policy Networks project is seeking feedback from food policy council members and their partners about the new USDA Urban, Indoor, and Other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education, and Extension (REE) Initiative. The USDA Urban, Indoor, and Other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education, and Extension Initiative was created in the 2018 Farm Bill and provided with $10 million in mandatory funding. The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently published a solicitation of stakeholder input to assist NIFA in identifying the most urgent and highest priorities for research, education and extension funding.

We want to know how you would respond to NIFA's solicitation of stakeholder input. Please take a moment to fill out the survey below. Your feedback will be used to inform the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)'s response to NIFA. We will close the survey on May 22, 2020. For more information about this survey or to share more detailed comments with the Food Policy Networks project, please contact rsanto1@jhu.edu.

You may submit written comments, identified by NIFA–2020–0001, to USDA NIFA in response to the solicitation of stakeholder input through the Federal Rulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Comment to USDA must be received by June 22, 2020.

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Considering agricultural production through marketing; which phase has the greatest and most urgent REE needs in developing urban and indoor agriculture?

Agricultural Production

Harvesting

Transportation

Aggregation

Packaging

Distribution

Markets

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Of the eight priorities listed below, which priority has the greatest and most urgent REE need in developing urban and indoor agriculture that is not being adequately addressed in other Federal REE programs:

Assessing and developing strategies to remediate contaminated sites and determining and developing the best production management and integrated pest management practices

Determining and developing the best production management and integrated pest management practices;

Identifying and promoting the horticultural, social, and economic factors that contribute to successful urban, indoor, and other emerging agricultural production;

Analyzing the means by which new agricultural sites are determined, including an evaluation of soil quality, condition of a building, or local community needs

Exploring new technologies that minimize energy, lighting systems, water, and other inputs for increased food production

Examining building material efficiencies and structural upgrades for the purpose of optimizing growth of agricultural products

Developing new crop varieties and agricultural products to connect to new markets

Examining the impacts of crop exposure to urban elements on environmental quality and food safety

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Are there areas of research, education or extension for urban and indoor agriculture that were not included in the questions above that you believe should be prioritized?

Do you have any other feedback in response to NIFA's solicitation for stakeholder input?

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