PROGRAMMING AREAS

   Community Capacity Building

   Regional Economic Development

   Entrepreneurship

   Local & Regional Food Systems

   Balanced Use of Natural Resources

   Other

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
The Pennsylvania State University
7 Armsby Building, University Park PA 16802-5602
814/863-4656(phone); 814/863-0586(fax)
Please send questions and comments to:
nercrd@psu.edu

Market Eggs Produce
Photos Courtesy of Greg Clary, Ph.D., Economist, Texas A&M University
 

AFRI Global Food Security Project Contacts

Project Director
Stephan J. Goetz
Director/Professor
Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
sgoetz@psu.edu

Principal Investigators
Kubi Ackerman
Research Coordinator
Columbia University
jsa2107@columbia.edu

Kate Alie
Extension Specialist
West Virginia State University
alieke@wvstateu.edu

Linda Berlin
Extension Assistant Professor and Director
UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture
linda.berlin@uvm.edu

Alessandro Bonanno
Assistant Professor
Penn State University
aub24@psu.edu

Patrick Canning
Economist
USDA-ERS, Washington, DC
pcanning@ers.usda.gov

Kate Clancy
Food Systems Consultant
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
klclancy@comcast.net

Michael Conard
Adjunct Associate Professor
Columbia University
jmc52@columbia.edu

Deno De Ciantis
Director
Penn State Outreach Center
dwd5@psu.edu

Sherry DeFauw
Research Agricultural Scientist
USDA-ARS, Orono, ME
sherri.defauw@ars.usda.gov

Dave Fleisher
Agriculture Engineer
USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD
david.fleisher@ars.usda.gov

Oliver Gao
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
hg55@cornell.edu

Carol Giesecke
Director of Didactic Program in Dietetics
Delaware State University
cgiesecke@desu.edu

Timothy Griffin
Director
Agriculture, Food and Environment Program
Tufts University
timothy.griffin@tufts.edu

Miguel Gomez
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
mig7@cornell.edu

Clare Hinrichs
Associate Professor
Penn State University
cch11@psu.edu

Robert Larkin
Research Leader and Supervisory Soil Scientist
USDA-ARS, Orono, ME
bob.larkin@ars.usda.gov

Anne Palmer
Program Director
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
ampalmer@jhsph.edu

Christian Peters
Assistant Professor
Tufts University
christian.peters@tufts.edu

Richard Plunz
Research Coordinator
Columbia University
rap9@columbia.edu

Kathryn Ruhf
Coordinator
Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
kzruhf@verizon.net


USDA-NIFA logo The Center receives core funds from USDA-NIFA and the Northeastern Regional
Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors.