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Research/Extension Grants: Economic Opportunities for Producers

This program funds competitive, formula and direct grants to individuals and institutions, largely land grant colleges and universities. Among the activities supported are preserving and expanding plant and animal genetic diversity and developing new food and non-food biobased products.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program has a clear purpose, and is well managed. It meets a specific need, namely maintaining the economic viability of the agricultural sector.
  • Some of the funding for this program is earmarked to specific locations and for specific purposes rather than through a competitive peer review process that would also reflect national priorities. However, these earmarked projects are still reviewed by the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service to ensure quality and performance
  • The program documented efficiency measures for the cost and length of time to process grant proposals.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Improving the focus of grant recipient reporting on outcomes.
  • Increasing planning and coordination with the Agricutural Research Service regarding the collection of stakeholder input.

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