The USDA has five specific areas of interest that work as an organism to complete the mission of the organization. Namely; assisting rural communities, conservation, education and research, food and nutrition as well as, marketing and trade. Each program then …show more content…
Agricultural research is designed to quantify productivity and sources of improvement and to investigate the direction and efficiency of the public and private sectors in enhancing the stock of agricultural knowledge and in developing new technologies. Secondly, agricultural statistics is a collection of data, analysis, and statistics from the Economic Research Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, and National Agricultural Statistics Service. And thirdly, the Economic Research Service is a primary source of economic information and research in the USDA which conducts a research program to inform public and private decision making on economic and policy issues involving food, farming, natural resources, and rural development (USDA.gov/Program and …show more content…
Starting with the future, children, the child nutrition program that introduced the importance of offering healthier lunches and snacks in school cafeterias for students. This in turn improved the health and nutrition of children all across the land. Next is the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) which targets limited-resource adults with young children and limited-resource youth. Using an evidence-based, peer educator interactive teaching model, EFNEP consistently leads to improve food choices and physical activity behaviors. Similarly, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP, work to provide low-income households with benefits such as cash assistance, to be used in the purchase of perishables. Closely related is the WIC; Women, Infants and Children program that provides Federal grants to states for nutritious foods, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income mothers. (USDA.gov/Program and Service). Direct, yet effective, the Organic Program demands that the production of any agricultural product to be marketed, must be organically