This report, commissioned by NIFA and carried out by the Natural Farming Analysis Basis, evaluates the impacts of the OREI and ORG applications over a seven-year interval, FY 2015-2021. The analysis consists of evaluation on awards by establishment sort, precedence space, commodity focus, and alignment with farmer-identified challenges. The findings of this report reveal that OREI initiatives addressed USDA legislative priorities via advances in soil well being, pest administration, and crop breeding, emphasizing sensible, scalable options that contribute to ecosystem stability and manufacturing resilience, and ORG-funded initiatives made important strides in supporting ecological providers and site-specific options for transitioning farms.
This report is a element of a venture funded via a three-year cooperative settlement between USDAʼs Nationwide Institute of Meals and Agriculture (NIFA) and the Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF). This settlement was initiated by NIFA and didn’t use any program funds from the Natural Agriculture Analysis and Extension Initiative (OREI) or Natural Transitions (ORG) appropriations. As a substitute, NIFA used inside administrative funds to cowl all venture actions. As a cooperative settlement, moderately than a normal aggressive grant, the events labored collaboratively to perform venture targets. Nonetheless, the authors acted independently in creating findings, conclusions and drafting the report.
