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Protection and Safety of Agricultural Food Supply (Grants)

This Agriculture program enhances the safety of the Nation's food supply by providing grants for research, education and extension activities. It has three portfolios: the reduction of food-borne disease, plant protection, and animal protection. Grants are provided through competition, formulas or directly to a program.

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 long term performance measures relate to the relevancy of the program. One is the number of contamination reducing methods that have been developed and actually used. Another is the number of significant pests for which tests are available. The third is based on an overall portfolio review that takes into account relevancy, performance and quality.
  • The cost to review grant proposals has increased, but met the target. The agency assumes an annual increase of two percent in the targets.
  • The safety of the food supply remains a major public health challenge. The Center for Disease Control estimated that 76 million people get sick, more than 300,000 are hospitalized and 5,000 die from food borne illnesses.

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 Agricultural Research Service regarding the collection of stakeholder input.

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