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Background |
The Current Research Information System (CRIS) provides documentation and reporting
for ongoing agricultural, food science, human nutrition, and forestry research, education
and extension activities for the United States Department of
Agriculture, with a focus on the National Institute of Food and Agriculture
(NIFA) grant programs. Projects are conducted or
sponsored by USDA research agencies, state agricultural experiment
stations, land-grant universities, other cooperating
state institutions, and participants in NIFA-administered
grant programs, including
Small Business Innovation Research, and
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. The
Planning, Accountability, & Reporting Staff office is responsible for maintaining CRIS.
CRIS was authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture in 1966 to document the publicly-funded activities of the USDA/State agricultural and forestry research system. The system has expanded to include a number of education, extension and integrated activities. Most CRIS data is available to the public through a number of web sites.
CRIS projects relating to human nutrition are provided annually to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for inclusion in the Human Nutrition Research and Information Management database (HNRIM). In CRIS, these projects are designated as the subfile, "HNRIMS." Updates occur annually; therefore, all human nutrition projects in CRIS may not yet be identified for inclusion in the HNRIMS subfile.
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Participants |
| USDA
State
Institutions
- State
Agricultural Experiment Stations
- 1862
Land Grant Institutions
- 1890
Land Grant Institutions and Tuskegee University
- 1994
Land Grant Institutions (Tribal Colleges)
- Cooperating
Schools of Veterinary Medicine
- State
Forestry Schools
Other
Participants
- NIFA
Competitive Grant, Small Business Innovation
Research, Cooperative Agreement, and other NIFA-funded program recipients
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| Subject Coverage
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Agricultural and forestry
research and education encompasses a broad range
of activities including:
- Management
and use of natural resources.
- Protection
of crops and livestock from pests and other
hazards.
- Production
management systems for crops, livestock, poultry,
and fish.
- Farm
and forest product development and quality improvement.
- Marketing
of crop, animal, and forest products.
- Foreign
trade and market development.
- Food
and human nutrition, health and safety, and
consumer protection.
- Rural,
community, and youth development.
- Family
resource management.
- Fish
and wildlife management, outdoor recreation,
and environmental quality.
- Agricultural
education and outreach.
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| Description
of Work |
A CRIS work unit documents
a defined activity at a single location. The work
focuses on a clearly definable problem, a manageable
phase of a larger problem, or a few closely related
elements of a broad-based program. Each documented
activity includes information on:
- WHAT is being done,
- WHO is doing it,
- WHERE it is being conducted,
- WHEN it is performed,
- PROGRESS achieved,
- IMPACT expected, and
- PUBLICATIONS produced.
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| Why Use CRIS?
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The mission of CRIS is
to document the research and education activities
of the USDA/State agricultural research and education
system for various reporting purposes, as well as
to provide ready access to information which can
help users to:
- keep abreast of the latest developments in
agricultural and forestry research and education,
- plan future activities,
- avoid costly duplication of publicly-funded
work, and
- establish valuable contacts within the research
and education community.
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| Access
and Services |
- CRIS information is available to the public through the CRIS web site, the Research, Economics, and
Education Information System (REEIS) web site, NIFA program web pages, as well as other database
providers. This data collection provides descriptive information, on a project level, of research,
education, extension and integrated activities supported by federal funds. Progress information is
also available.
- Cooperating state partner institutions have full access to the data submitted by their individual
institution through the CRIS Forms Assistance site as well as the Partnership Leadership Management
Dashboard maintained by NIFA.
- A CRIS manual as well as the Manual of Classification
for Agricultural and Forestry Research, Education,
and Extension is available electronically to assist in the data entry process of CRIS reporting.
- Annual funding summary reports
are published on the CRIS web site to provide a number of data views based on the financial reports
received in CRIS.
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further information, use the contact email electronic@usda.gov in the Planning, Accountability, & Reporting Staff office. |
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Last
Modified
02/24/2022
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