; (ii) the Extension Disaster Education Network; (iii) the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center; (iv) the Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center; (v) the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program; (vi) the National Soil Dynamics Laboratory; (vii) the National Cooperative Soil Survey; (viii) the Economic Research Service; (ix) regional and rural development centers; and (x) other existing climate-related research networks within the Department of Agriculture that the Secretary determines to be appropriate to participate in the Network; and (C) other government-affiliated entities and climate resilience-related research networks outside of the Department of Agriculture, including— (i) the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research; (ii) the U.S. Global Change Research Program; (iii) State and public weather station networks; (iv) the National Weather Service and other weather data systems within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; (v) the harvest program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and (vi) other existing local, State, or Federal climate-related research networks, as determined by the Secretary. (d) Activities of the network (1) In general An individual or entity within the Network may— (A) through the means described in paragraph (2)— (i) initiate, expand, or sustain agricultural research programs that build capacity to mitigate, respond to, and recover from climate change disasters, including— (I) programs of the Agricultural Research Service; (II) the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative; (III) the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program; (IV) the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority; and (V) programs of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research; (ii) inform and advise about agricultural climate variability, change, vulnerability, risk, adaptation, and mitigation; (iii) respond to climate impacts on ecosystems, economics, and diversity