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Study: NIFA Capacity Funding a Valued Investment to States
USAgNet - 03/28/2017

The USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture released a new report that measured the effectiveness of NIFA's investments to our nation's land-grant universities -- investments that benefit the American public through agriculture and food research, extension, and education projects. The report, "National Evaluation of Capacity Programs," was prepared by TEConomy Partners.

"It's no accident that agriculture is a high-performing sector of the U.S. economy," said NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy. "It's the result of decades of research and development. This report shows the importance of federal investments to our nation's land-grant university system."

Among the report's key findings, capacity funding remains a relevant program that offers multiple benefits. Investments respond to the specific needs of local, regional, and state agricultural producers. Capacity funds offer an essential funding stream for research and extension programs of relevance to producers that are unlikely to receive national-scale attention. Each dollar of capacity funding leverages $1.85 in additional investments from state, local, and private sector sources.

NIFA provides capacity funding to 112 land-grant institutions that are designated by their states to receive legislated capacity funding. Land-grant colleges and universities, also known as LGUs, include 1862 public universities; 1890 historically black colleges and universities and Tuskegee University; 1994 tribal colleges and universities; and Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and universities. The amount of funds NIFA provides to each institution is determined by statutorily defined formulas, including variables such as the rural population, number of farms, and poverty. University leaders decide the specific projects that will be supported by an institution's capacity grant allotment, which must be aligned with NIFA-approved plans of work.


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