Report from Center for Rural Affairs on USDA impact on mid-size farms

An excellent report to view return on investment (ROI as it is known in the philanthropy and corporate world) for USDA and to see where the support has gone.

With this (2006) study, we seek to better understand how key USDA grant and research programs are serving beginning and small and mid-size farms and ranches, and what steps might be taken to improve these programs or develop new solutions to enhance farm profitability and rural community success.

The Impact and Benefits of USDA Research and Grant Programs to Enhance
Mid-Size Farm Profitability and Rural Community Success Download Report

Published on Center for Rural Affairs (http://www.cfra.org)

About these ads

By Darlene Wolnik, on June 23, 2011 at 12:35 pm, under evaluation, farmers/farming information, USDA, useful websites. No Comments

Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

about.me

Darlene Wolnik
Community activist, public market consultant and writer
Working since the 1980s on social change issues while encouraging civic activity across North America. I live in the Gumbo Nation (New Orleans) and raised here some but mostly in Buckeye Nation (Cleveland). I provide support and consulting for localized food systems, especially farmers markets. Bicycling, clean water, pocketbook issues, true wealth generation, reanimating public spaces and direct action democracy are also within my focus. Have blogged for a decade, have published essays and non-fiction since 2001.
Independent Researcher and Trainer Darlene Wolnik offers:

Analysis: Research and reports on public market organizational structure and governance or logistics.

Conference or workshop preparation: Building or running educational/networking events for food organizers.

Grants: Assistance with public market project grant-writing including research of subject, draft narrative and final editing.

Reports: Researching and writing for public market organization or food system projects.

Speaking: Keynote speeches or workshop development and/or facilitation.

Technical Assistance: Phone, email, webinar or in-person technical assistance for public market startups or project work for market organizations. Phone, email, webinar or in-person technical assistance for funders or stakeholders of food system projects.

Fees upon request: a percentage of pro bono time offered with most individual market-level projects.

This blog focuses on the intersection of retail anthropology and social justice issues in order to start some ideas flowing and conversation about how we can use public markets.
It's updated Mondays and Thursdays.
Email Subscription

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 94 other followers
Search this blog

Search for:
articles case studies/research civic engagement conferences Congress economic development issues environmental issues evaluation farmers/farming information farmers markets FMC food policy general governments incentives industrial food system international farmers market news Main Street market vendors national food system work New Orleans food other sectors public health public markets retail anthropology/science of shopping social cohesion USDA useful websites webinars Where's Dar now?
Click here to read about sailing alone and anchoring together….
Darlene Wolnik-Helping Public Markets Grow

Recent and current work:

•Independent research for case studies of governance of markets. Found at helpingpublicmarketsgrow dot com
• Independent research for market characteristics. Found at
helpingpublicmarketsgrow dot com
•Brooklyn NYC-Conducted a series of trainings for community markets for the Brooklyn District Public Health Office (BDPHO).
•Brooklyn NYC- Assisted BDPHO with developing farmers market technical assistance programs.
•Colorado-Assisting Boulder Farmers Markets with strategy sessions.
•Farmers Market Coalition-Writer/Researcher: Assisting with University of Virginia Morven Summer Institute course on farmers market evaluation.
•Farmers Market Coalition: Writer/Researcher for training and technical assistance project.
•Louisiana: Assisted LSU AgCenter and Farmers Market Coalition with first statewide market conference.
•Louisiana: Assisting students at Southeastern University in Hammond with food system research and farmers market strategy.
*Louisiana: Assisting Urban Conservancy with day-long Community Wealth Workshop featuring Michael Shuman in New Orleans LA
• Maine: Researched farmers market job descriptions for People's Regional Opportunity Program work with farmers markets.
•Mississippi: Assisting Gulf Coast markets with surveys for location and customer/vendor satisfaction.
•NOFA-VT- Designed and led evaluation workshop for VT markets.
•VT-Dept of Ag: Researching SNAP, FMNP technology and policy answers for VT farmers markets in collaboration with NOFA-VT
•Wallace Center: Researching and writing case studies of successful direct marketing Mississippi farmers and markets.
*Why Hunger: Creating online toolkit for grassroots communities in 3 regions.
*Creating articles and researching resources for WhyHunger's Food Security Learning Center

Feel free to contact me at my name at gmail dot com I might be able to help your market or business.
Thanks
Dar Wolnik
Take Part
Louisiana Eats
- What's To Become Of The New Orleans Food Truck Scene?
- Will Louisiana's Seafood System Go Commercially Extinct?
Public Markets Book Club

Public Markets
13 members
Books to explain, extol, evaluate or expand the world of public markets for those who manage them an...

Books we've read

Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nine...
by Helen Tangires
Start date: January 1, 2003

The Logic of Sufficiency
by Thomas Princen
Start date: May 5, 2009

View this group on Goodreads »
Share book reviews and ratings with Public Markets, and even join a book club on Goodreads.