State Coordinators
SARE works to provide solutions to challenges in agriculture that are specific to a site or region. Just as SARE is broken into four regions at the national level, each region is broken into its respective states and U.S. protectorates. That helps to ensure local solutions to local problems.
The Western SARE region comprises 13 states and four U.S. Pacific island protectorates. Each is represented by a SARE coordinator who assists in promoting sustainable agriculture locally through noncompetitive state grants operated through SARE's Professional Development Program. Coordinators typically use these grants to conduct educational programs in sustainable agriculture.
Examples of recent educational programs include such activities as producing newsletters, holding conferences, developing Web sites and creating program training materials for employees of ag-support agencies. Target audiences, in addition to farmers and ranchers, are employees of Cooperative Extension, the Natural Resource Conservation Services and other agencies or nonprofit organizations supporting sustainable agriculture.
Click here if you'd like to see what sorts of Sustainable Agriculture Professional Development efforts are taking place in the states and island protectorates of the Western region.
