| 1862s |
Land-grant institutions established by the Morrill Act of 1862 (at least one in every state) |
| 1890s |
Land-grant institutions of higher learning that are historically black and were founded by the second Morrill Act, 1890 |
| 1994s |
Historically Native American institutions of higher learning |
| AA |
Administrative Advisor; an experiment station director who has been assigned to work with a multistate research project |
| AC |
Advisory Council |
| AFRI |
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, a competitive grants program of the USDA |
| AIMS |
Agriculture Internet Monitoring System |
| APHIS |
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, an agency within USDA |
| APLU |
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (formerly NASULGC) |
| AREERA |
Agricultural Research, Extension and Education Reform Act of 1998 (the 1998 Farm Bill) |
| ARS |
Agricultural Research Service; the in-house research agency within USDA |
| BATS |
Biological Analysis and Taxonomic Support |
| BEAD |
EPA’s Biological and Economic Analysis Division |
| BAA |
Board on Agriculture Assembly (the agricultural division of APLU) |
| BRAG |
Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants |
| CABI |
Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International |
| CAPS |
Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey |
| CAR |
Crops at Risk (section 406 grants program through USDA-NIFA) |
| CARET |
Council for Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching (APLA) |
| CES |
Cooperative Extension Service |
| CI |
Critical Issues |
| CIG |
Conservation Innovation Grant (NRCS) |
| CIPM |
Center for Integrated Pest Management |
| COI |
eXtension - Community of Interest |
| COP |
eXtension - Community of Practice |
| CPHST |
Center for Plant Health Science Technology |
| CPPM |
Crop Protection and Pest Management Program (program within USDA-NIFA that addresses high-priority issues related to pests and IPM approaches at the state, regional, and national levels; this includes funding the regional IPM centers) |
| CRIS |
Current Research Information System (program within USDA-NIFA that tracked research projects within land-grant universities and USDA agencies. Now REEport) |
| CRP |
Conservation Research Program (NRCS) |
| CSP |
Conservation Security Program (part of NRCS) |
| CTV |
Citrus tristeza |
| ECOP |
Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (part of APLU) |
| EIPM |
Extension IPM |
| EIPMC |
IPM Cotton Program |
| EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
| EQIP |
Environmental Quality Incentives Program |
| ERS |
Economic Research Service; a social science research agency within USDA |
| ESA |
Entomological Society of America |
| ESCOP |
Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy (part of the BAA in APLU) |
| ESS |
Experiment Station Section of the BAA |
| FFY |
Federal fiscal year |
| FIPMCC |
Federal IPM Coordinating Committee |
| FOTG |
Field Office Technical Guide |
| FQPA |
Food Quality Protection Act |
| FTE |
Full-time equivalent |
| FY |
Fiscal year |
| GAO |
General Accounting Office |
| GPDD |
Global Pesticide Disease Database |
| GPRA |
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 |
| Hatch Funds |
Federal funds administered by experiment stations. The Hatch Act of 1887 established SAES and provided a mechanism for allocation federal support. Hatch Funds are also known as Formula Funds |
| IFAFS |
Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems (grants program through USDA-NIFA) |
| INV |
Innovation Award |
| IOP |
Integrated Organic Program |
| IPM |
Integrated Pest Management |
| IPM1 |
National IPM Implementation Program: Phase 1 |
| IPM2 |
National IPM Implementation Program: Phase 2 |
| ipmPIPE |
Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education |
| IS |
International Services |
| IR-4 |
Inter-regional Research Project Number 4 (provides regulatory clearances for pest management tools on minor crops) |
| IRAC |
Insecticide Resistance Action Committee |
| IWG |
IPM Working Groups (formerly CWG) |
| LGU |
Land-Grant University |
| MBT |
Methyl Bromide Transition Grant |
| MRP |
Multistate Research Project, a coordinated research project between two or more experiment stations that is partially supported by a designated portion of Hatch Funds called Multistate Research Funds |
| NAPIS |
National Agricultural Pest Information System |
| NASS |
National Agricultural Statistics Service; an agency within USDA |
| NASULGC |
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (now named Association of Public and Land-grant Universities - APLU) |
| NCIPMC |
North Central Integrated Pest Management Center |
| NCERA 222 |
North Central Regional IPM Committee |
| NEED |
Northeast Extension Directors |
| NEERA |
The Northeast Region Technical Committee on IPM. NEERA stands for “Northeast Education/Extension and Research Activities.” NEERA is officially titled NEERA-1604 and was formerly known as NEERA-1004 and Northeast Research, Extension and Academic Program Committee for IPM (NEREAP-IPM). |
| NEIPMC |
Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center |
| NEPMNet |
New England Pest Management Network (information network project with NEIPMC) |
| NERA |
Northeastern Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors |
| NEREAP |
see NEERA-1004 |
| NESARE |
Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program |
| NEWA |
Northeast Weather Association |
| NIFA |
National Institute of Food and Agriculture; an agency within USDA |
| NIMSS |
National Information Management and Support System |
| NIPMEG |
National IPM Evaluation Group |
| NJinPAS |
New Jersey Information Network for Pesticides and Alternative Strategies |
| NOFA |
Northeast Organic Farming Association |
| NPB |
National Plant Board |
| NPDN |
National Plant Diagnostic Network |
| NPL |
National Program Leader |
| NRCS |
Natural Resources Conservation Service; an agency within USDA |
| NRI |
National Research Initiative (now defunct) |
| NSP |
National Special Project |
| OECD |
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| OMB |
Office of Management and Budget |
| OPIS |
Offshore Pest Information System |
| OPMP |
Office of Pest Management Policy (part of USDA) |
| OPP |
Office of Pesticide Programs (part of EPA) |
| OPs |
Organophosphate pesticides |
| OREI |
Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative |
| ORG |
Organic Grant Program |
| PAMS |
Prevention, Avoidance, Monitoring, Suppression |
| PAS |
Phytosanitary Alert System |
| PAT |
Pesticide applicator training (now PSEP) |
| PEAP |
Pesticide Education and Assessment Programs |
| PESP |
Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (a public-private partnership connected to EPA) |
| PD |
Project Director |
| PI |
Principal Investigator |
| PIAP |
Pesticide Impact Assessment Program (coordinated through USDA and states; established to promote informed regulatory decisions on registered pesticides) |
| PLB |
Potato Late Blight Program |
| PMAP |
Pest Management Alternatives Program (a grants program with USDA) |
| PMSP |
Pest Management Strategy Plan |
| PPQ |
Plant Protection and Quarantine |
| PSEP |
Pesticide Safety Education Program |
| RABID |
Risk Analysis Biological Informational Database |
| RAMP |
Risk Avoidance and Mitigation Program (grants program formerly offered through USDA-NIFA) |
| REEport |
Grant project reporting system, USDA (replaces CRIS) |
| RIPM |
Regional Integrated Pest Management |
| RFA |
Request for applications (formerly called RFPs; the federal government revised the term to RFA in 2001) |
| RFP |
Request for Proposals |
| RMA |
Risk Management Agency within USDA |
| SAES |
State Agricultural Experiment Station(s) |
| SAI |
Strategic Agricultural Initiative in EPA |
| SARE |
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program |
| SC |
Steering Committee (all four regions have steering committees) |
| SERA 3 |
Southern Extension and Research Activities – Information Exchange Group |
| SLA |
State Lead Agency |
| SNP |
State Network Projects (discontinued) |
| SPHD |
State Plant Health Director |
| SPRO |
State Plant Regulatory Official |
| SRG |
Special Research Grants |
| SRIPMC |
Southern Region Integrated Pest Management Center |
| SWAPA+H |
Soil, water, animals, plants, air + humans |
| SWOT |
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (a tool for program analysis/planning) |
| USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
| WERA 1017 |
Coordination of Integrated Pest Management Research & Extension/Educational Programs for the Western United States & Pacific |
| WIPMC |
Western Integrated Pest Management Center |
