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“A Good Program in Theory”: Opportunities for Administrative Improvements to USDA’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program
The Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) and the next Farm Bill
How Donald Trump or Kamala Harris should spend a billion dollars at USDA
Case Studies of Performance-based RCPP Projects
The US Department of Agriculture has contracted at least seven RCPP projects that used performance-based payments to buy environmental outcomes. This report profiles their challenges and successes.
New paper: USDA is already buying environmental outcomes…kinda
40 Senate Farm Bill Provisions to Get Excited About
40 provisions from the Senate’s Farm Bill draft to get excite about.
USDA can now help small producers participate in environmental markets. Should it?
Should USDA start competing as a seller in the ecosystem services market?
President Biden and Freshwater
Challenges to Scaling RCPP: A review of the Regional Conservation Partnership Program's 2023 notice of funding opportunity
New Report: Challenges to Scaling RCPP
New report examines the challenges to administratively scaling the Regional Conservation Partnership Program
Increasing the efficiency of land transactions
EPIC 2023 Farm Bill Concepts
EPIC’s concepts to dramatically increase the pace and scale of conservation in the 2023 Farm Bill
To spend $20 billion, USDA needs to make some little tweaks to some big programs
Third and final in a series, this blog explores how USDA can tweak existing programs to speed up delivery of conservation money in the Inflation Reduction Act.
To spend $20 billion, USDA needs to embrace conservation tech
Second in a series, this blog explores how USDA can use emerging technologies to speed up delivery of conservation money in the Inflation Reduction Act.
To spend $20 billion, USDA needs to swing for the fences on environmental outcomes
First in a series, this blog explores how USDA can use outcomes purchasing to speed up delivery of conservation money in the Inflation Reduction Act.
NASDA Action Item Encouraging a Clean Water Outcomes Matching Program
Action item approved by NASDA encouraging a Clean Water Outcome Matching Program in the next Farm Bill