Program Impacts

NIFA impacts the lives of most Americans, directly or indirectly, through:

• competitive grant programs that enable scientists throughout the nation to conduct high impact projects related to agriculture, food, health, the environment, families, and communities;
• national programs spanning 60 disciplines, from Agricultural and Biological Engineering to Youth Education;
• support for the nearly 3000 local cooperative extension offices nationwide;
• education programs that support hundreds of colleges and universities, including those serving African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans; and,
• funds that generally support research and extension activities across the country.

To explore the impacts of these activities, see the following:

• Agency news releases highlight many of our successes.

• Current Research Information System (CRIS) is a database that includes details on most NIFA-funded research projects.

• Leadership Management Dashboard allows for the exploration of financial and research data collected by NIFA and its sister agencies.

• National Impacts are news stories, authored by NIFA staff or staff at our partner land grant institutions, that highlight NIFA-funded projects or activities

• NRI Cover Stories detail major professional journal articles featuring research funded by our largest funding opportunity, the National Research Initiative.

• NRI Research Highlights are technical descriptions of notable NRI-funded research projects.

• Partners Video Magazine highlights the impacts of the NIFA/Land Grant University System partnership in research, education, and extension.

• Program pages include Selected Results and Impacts sections highlighting notable achievements.

• SBIR National Impacts feature notable products produced through funding from the agency's Small Business Innovation Research grant program.

• State Accomplishments for the Formula Grants Annual Reports document what states accomplished with annual formula funds allocations from NIFA.