Join USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) for its Food and Nutrition Security Webinar Series. The series features speakers across a range of backgrounds and disciplines as they lead discussions about NIFA relevant approaches to advancing food and nutrition security through research, education, and extension.
As explained on our Food and Nutrition Security Topic Page, NIFA recognizes nutrition as a cost-effective approach to address many of the societal, environmental, and economic issues faced across the globe today. NIFA works to ensure a safe, nutritious, and secure food supply while also developing, delivering, and disseminating evidence-based nutrition education and promotion to prevent chronic diseases, improve health, and prioritize nutrition security.
NIFA partners with the Land-grant University System and government, private, and non-profit organizations to support science. Our agency also invests in developing nutrition scientists across all stages of professional development to use an integrated approach to prioritizing nutrition security and ensuring sustainable agricultural systems through research, education, and extension. NIFA invests more than $220 million in research, education, extension, and innovation to advance USDA’s goal to tackle food and nutrition insecurity.
Launched in June 2021, NIFA uses our NIFA Food and Nutrition Security Webinar Series to shine light on our integrated approach through research, education, and extension to advance food and nutrition security. We are also using this series to learn from external stakeholders’ working this area and hear from our webinar attendees how we can further our efforts to tackle food and nutrition insecurity. We invite anyone interested in learning more about NIFA’s efforts in food and nutrition security to register for upcoming webinars, or view past recordings.
Future Webinar
Past Webinars
- This webinar will provide an overview of NIFA’s contributions to tackling food and nutrition insecurity. Moderator Sheila Fleischhacker, PhD, JD, RDN, National Science Liaison – Food Safety and Nutrition, NIFA and NIFA Food and Nutrition Team Co-Lead Panelists: Caree Cotwright, PhD, RDN, Director of...
- This webinar will provide an overview of NIFA’s contributions to accelerating progress on the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health Pillar 2 Integrate Nutrition and Health and use a structured panel discussion to reflect on efforts to date and shape work ahead. Moderator Sheila...
- Employment in food, nutrition, dietetic and medical sciences is projected to grow 6-10 percent over the next 10 years, though decreases in students qualified to fill these growing needs are reported. Societal challenges such as tackling food and nutrition insecurity and ensuring health require an...
- Dr. Suzanne Stluka, Deputy Director, USDA NIFA Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition, will kick off this webinar highlighting the connection of food loss and waste to tackling food and nutrition insecurity and explain NIFA’s contributions to USDA’s overall efforts. She will than pass it off to Dr...
- Changes in climate exacerbate the risk of extreme weather-related disasters, caused by naturally occurring hazards such as droughts, heat waves, wildfires, tornados, floods, hurricanes, tropical storms, and blizzards. These naturally occurring hazards often disrupt agricultural, forestry, and...
- Dr. Dionne Toombs, Associate Director of Programs at NIFA, started off the webinar by highlighting NIFA’s contributions to helping reach the Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s goal of making MyPlate a household name. Then, Dr. Caree Cotwright, Director of Nutrition Security and Health at USDA Food...
Archive Webinars
- USDA’s ASCEND for Better Health Nutrition Hub at Southern University
- NIFA Nutrition Security Webinar: Promoting Indigenous Food Sovereignty | NIFA
- NIFA Food and Nutrition Security Webinar Series: Promoting Youth Voice | NIFA (usda.gov)
- NIFA Food & Nutrition Security Webinar: Local/Regional Food Systems | NIFA (usda.gov)
- NIFA Food and Nutrition Security Webinar: An Overview of NIFA’s Food Loss and Waste Relevant Funding Opportunities | NIFA (usda.gov)
- NIFA Nutrition Security Webinar Series: National 4-H Conference Roundtable - Youth Perspectives on Tackling Food & Nutrition Insecurity | NIFA (usda.gov)
- NIFA Nutrition Security Webinar Series - EFNEP: A Model of Cooperation and Collaboration
- NIFA Nutrition Security Webinar Series - An App And A Carrot: An Overview Of The Evolution And Impacts Of VeggieBook
- Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program: Overview, Impacts & Opportunities
- Internships: Perspectives from NIFA Nutrition Security Team Members
- Honoring and Celebrating Black History Month: The Role of Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and Other Allied Health Professionals
- Prioritizing Nutrition Security: Cooperative Extension's National Framework for Health Equity and Well-Being
- NIFA Nutrition Security Webinar Series: Prioritizing Nutrition Security: The Role of 1890 Land-grant Institutions Programs
- NIFA Nutrition Security Webinar Series: The Development of New Measures to Complement the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module
- Prioritizing Nutrition Security: Emerging Approaches in Research and Practice
- Prioritizing Nutrition Security: NIFA Elevates Youth and Families
- Prioritizing Nutrition Security: NIFA’s Role in Cultivating Future Farmers and Ranchers
- NIFA Nutrition Security: An Overview of Current Activities & Aims