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# Administration Priority: Food and Nutrition Insecurity

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Building on long-standing efforts to address food insecurity and the growing intersections between food insecurity and diet-related diseases and disparities, the USDA is advancing food and nutrition security.

Nutrition security means ensuring consistent and equitable access to healthy, safe, affordable foods essential to optimal health and well-being. Our approach to tackling food and nutrition insecurity aims to:
                        - Recognize that structural inequities make it hard for many people to eat healthy and be physically active; and
                        - Emphasize taking an equity lens to our efforts.

NIFA works to ensure a safe, nutritious and secure food supply while also developing, delivering and disseminating evidence-based nutrition education and promotion to prevent chronic diseases, improve health and prioritize nutrition security. NIFA invests in developing nutrition scientists across all stages of professional development to use an integrated approach to prioritizing nutrition security and ensuring sustainable agricultural systems through research, education and Extension. NIFA invests more than $160 million in research, education, Extension and innovation to advance USDA’s goal to tackle food and nutrition insecurity.  

#### Impacts

                        - Working to Reduce Food Insecurity | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (usda.gov)  (October 2022) 
                        - USDA Nutrition Programs Work to Reduce Hunger and Improve Healthy Food Access | National Institute of Food and Agriculture  (September 2022) 
                        - The Power of Young Voices in Nutrition Security | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (usda.gov)  (September 2022) 
                        - NIFA Programs Work to Increase Food and Nutrition Security | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (usda.gov)  (August 2022) 
                        - Developing New Measures to Assess Factors Associated with Food Insecurity in the U.S. | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (usda.gov)  (August 2022) 
                        - Increasing Food Security in a Mohican Tribal Community | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (usda.gov)  (June 2022) 
                        - Celebrating 30 Years of SNAP-Ed | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (usda.gov)  (May 2022) 
                        - Hope to Dream: Mobile County SNAP-Ed Educator Facilitates Bed Donation | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (usda.gov)  (May 2022) 
                        - Community Foods Projects Improving National Food Security | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (usda.gov)  (March 2022) 
                        - EFNEP: Over 50 Years of Nutrition Education | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (usda.gov)  (March 2022) 
                        - GusNIP Projects Help Families Purchase Fresh Fruits and Vegetables | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (usda.gov)  (March 2022) 
                        - Service Learning Program Connects Children to the Food They Eat | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (usda.gov)  (February 2022) 

#### NIFA Programs & Funding Opportunities

See the NIFA Food and Nutrition Security page for additional programs and funding opportunities.

**PROGRAMS**
                        - Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)  
                        - Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP)  
                        - Community Food Projects  (CFP) 
                        - Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (FASLP)  
                        - Agricultural and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases  

**FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES**
                        - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational and Applied Science Program  
                        - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Education and Workforce Development  
                        - Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases  
                        - The Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program - Produce Prescription Program  
                        - Youth Farm Safety Education and Certification Program  
                        - Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grants (TCEG) Program  
                        - The Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program - Nutrition Incentive Program  
                        - The Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program Nutrition Incentive Program - Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Information Centers  
                        - Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children – National Workforce Strategy Development  
                        - Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Grants Program  
                        - Equipment Grant Program  

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