1. What is Cooperative Extension Sysytem?

The Cooperative Extension System(CES), in partnership with National Institute of Food

and Agriculture, takes current research and applies it within communities to improve
nutrition and food safety, emergency response preparation, and environmental
protection. CES functions through Land-Grant Universities to use the research of
universities to impact the nations communities needs. Funds and grants are developed
and distrubted to the experts whom extend their research to help farmers, community
members and future leaders with knowledge.

2. What is the Smith Lever Act and why is it important? How has Extension
adapted over the last century?

The Smith Lever Act (1914) was created a Cooperative Extension Service with land-
grant institutions to extand education to Americans by the partnership with agriculture
colleges and the USDA. Through land grant universities rural communities gain
knowledge to improve agriculture and technology systems. The Smith Lever Act is
important to communities because the funding provides resources to be able to extend
the knowledge through educational programs. Extension has adapted over the last
century to meet the needs of their community members. The partnerships between land
grant universities, with grants from the Smith Lever Act, and NIFA have developed
practical applications in agriculture, home economics, public policy, and leadership to
improve communities. Every 5 years land grant universities are required to submit a
plan of work to ensure quality work is to be done to support rural Americans.

3. What is meant by a Land Grant Univerisity? List 10 Land Grant Universities.

The land that the universities science and agriculture research is conducted is federally
funded to network the scientists to educators and extension staff to address issues such
as agriculture, sciences, food, and environment. The federal funding allows the
knowledge of the sciences to be brought into technical use to reach and improve rural
commnities.
1. University of Idaho
2. Oregon Stat University
3. University of California
4. Washington State University
5. Pennsylvania State University
6. Colorado State University
7. Montana State University
8. Texas A&M University
9. University of Florida
10. University of Arizona
 4. What is SNAP – Ed, why does it exist and how is it funded? What is EFNEP,
why does it exist and how is it funded?

SNAP-Ed stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program education. It is a

program provides education on nutrition and obesity prevention for populations of low
income. SNAP provides programs and support for those eligible to receive federal
assistance. SNAP-Ed receives their funding through grants that come from federally
funded orginizations, such as a land grant university, to prevent obesity and help
communities live healthfully. EFNEP is the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education
Program. EFNEP provides nutrition education and reduce food insecurity to low income
families. EFNEP is an extension program that opperates through funding by land grant
universities. The progams include applied science, hands on experience, and tracks
data to contiue to improve specific programs.

5. University of idaho’s SNAP-Ed/EFNEP program is called Eat Smart Idaho.

Please review our website:
http://www.uidaho.edu/extension/eatsmartidaho. Look for other SNAP-Ed
websites….what are your top 5 favorite SNAP-Ed sites; why do you like
them?

Oregon had a good SNAP-Ed site https://www.foodhero.org/. I liked that they had a
video on the homepage of kids cooking on their own in a safe environment. I also loved
how colorful their logo is. It get the point across to eat the rainbow. This website
seemed good for the people who actually would be accessing the resources.

Washington SNAP-Ed was also a good site https://wasnap-ed.org/ . It is sleek and easy
to navigate. It had a map to locate SNAP-Ed by region. This site shared a lot of success
stories and impacts on the front page. I did not like how I had to search more for the
actual program offerings.

California http://calfresh.dss.ca.gov/healthyliving/home , Calfresh Healthy Living’s site

was clear to what SNAP-Ed is right on the front description. I like the easy break down
sections of the website and the appetizing healthy recipes.

Utah, Food $ense https://extension.usu.edu/createbetterhealth/eat/ focused a lot on

how to budget, just by their name you could tell what a big focus of their programs. I
think this site was asethetically pleasing because it used lots of square shapes to
categorize the different categories.
Montana’s Buy, Eat, Live Better https://buyeatlivebetter.org/ SNAP-Ed was very easy to
read and navigate. I like how it had a rotating cover picture to share articles which kept
me captivated to want to know what the next one would be.

https://nifa.usda.gov/
https://www.uidaho.edu/extension