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  • From: "Steve Diver" <steved@ncatark.uark.edu>
  • To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Building Better Rural Places, resource guide to Agric & Forestry
  • Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:11:44 -0500


Do you or your clients sometimes wonder what funds or technical
assistance are available from all those USDA agencies and other
federal programs? How can you find a phone number or a web page
to simplify your search? Who you gonna call?

Announcing the availability of "Building Better Rural Places,"
a 2001 resource guide to federal programs offering assistance in
agriculture, forestry, conservation, and rural community development
-- available in print as well as on the web.

Building Better Rural Places
http://www.attra.org/guide/index.htm

Building Better Rural Places: Federal Programs for Sustainable
Agriculture, Forestry, Conservation and Community Development
January 2001; 160 pages

"Building Better Rural Places" provides descriptions and contact
information for 80 federal programs -- primarily in USDA but also
the EPA and Fish and Wildlife Service -- that offer support to
farmers and others seeking technical assistance, information, or
financial resources on topics like:

*sustainable agriculture
*forestry
*entrepreneurship
*marketing
*adding value
*conservation
*community development
*sustainable land and resource management

Those federal programs -- located around the country as well
as in Washington, DC -- are organized according to the following
categories (number of programs are listed in parenthesis):

Research, Information and New Technologies (19)
Financing Businesses and New Enterprises (17)
Management Assistance (5)
Marketing Assistance (6)
Conservation and Resource Management (12)
Community Development (9)
Additional Resources (10)
General Information Sources (3)

The guide will be especially helpful to farmers, land managers,
entrepreneurs, community developers, conservationists,
organizations, and businesses. The guide also aims to help
employees with USDA and other federal agencies become aware
of and take better advantage of the enormous array of federal
programs and resources available to support agricultural and
forestry innnovations.

The guide resulted from a collaboration of individuals from USDA
agencies who are working together for sustainable rural development,
and compiled in concert with the Michael Fields Agricultural
Institute in Wisconsin.

USDA agencies and programs providing major support for this
publication:

Resource Conservation and Development
Natural Resources Conservation Service
U.S. Forest Service
Cooperative State Research, Education & Extension Service
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE)

HTML and PDF web versions are available on the ATTRA web
page, located at:

Building Better Rural Places
http://www.attra.org/guide/index.htm

To obtain a free, printed copy of "Building Better Rural Places,"
please contact:

Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA)
P.O. Box 3657
Fayetteville, AR 72702
800-346-9140
501-442-9842 Fax

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