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The Nevada Department of Agriculture announced a new agreement with Food Bank of Northern Nevada to provide emergency food assistance to the 95,000 food-insecure individuals in Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey, Washoe and White Pine counties.

Buffalo’s Fire USDA working with ranchers toward Indigenous food sovereignty

Since the near extinction of the buffalo, the animal has become a recent symbol of both Indigenous resilience and food sovereignty. Now, buffalo are central to a new pilot program

Each opportunity to engage directly with the people we serve through our programs provides moments to learn and reflect. For far too long, decisions about the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations, also known as FDPIR, were made for tribes rather than with tribes or even by tribes. But USDA is committed to turning that tide and making the future of FDPIR one marked by listening, understanding and collaboration. Last month’s National Association of Food Distribution Programs on India...

New legislation that aims to expand food assistance for tribal households will be introduced in the U.S. Senate today, Native News Online has learned. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) are expected to file a new bill that would allow individuals who are eligible for both the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) to use both programs in the same month. The proposed Tribal Access to Nutrition Ass...

Students in Wilkes County Schools will again be eligible to receive free breakfast and lunch meals this coming school year.

A roundtable of Native American agricultural leaders at a recent U.S. Senate hearing lobbied for increased sovereignty and social justice.

A roundtable of Native American agricultural leaders at a recent U.S. Senate hearing lobbied for increased sovereignty and social justice in the coming farm bill by expanding tribes’ jurisdiction over U.S. Department of Agriculture programs. 

A new federal approach been applied to Native nutrition and wildfire management through USDA pilot programs, created in the 2018 farm bill.