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This $27,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (CFDA 10.608) aims to improve food security, reduce hunger, and enhance literacy and primary education in Bangladesh. The prime awardee, the United Nations World Food Programme, will provide weekly school meals of fortified biscuits, boiled eggs, UHT milk, and seasonal fruit to 31,936 students in 149 schools in the Madhabpur...

This $15,400,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Food for Peace Development Assistance Program (CFDA 98.007) will fund the VIKINA Resilience Food Security Activity in southeastern Madagascar. The award recipient, Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA), and its partners will implement a 5-year program to deliver the "graduation approach" to 34,000 households across selected districts in Farafangana and...

The Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs awarded $5 million under the International Labor Programs (CFDA 17.401) cooperative agreement to The Fair Food Standards Council Inc. to apply a worker-centric approach to combatting labor exploitation in the agriculture industries of Mexico, Chile, and South Africa through December 2025. Key deliverables include adapting worker education and audit materials for each country; partnering with local worker organizations and civil...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025), aims to develop a work-based learning experience program (WBLP) for community college students focused on on-farm enhanced biosecurity plan development and implementation. The $498,985.00 award to the University of California, Davis will support the creation of...

SR1 received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328) to develop and provide customized food safety education and outreach from farm to table. The two-year award will fund SR1's Community Oriented Opportunities for Learning Food Safety from Farm to Table project, which aims to build upon existing food safety education and address the specialized needs of socially...

This $31,392,529 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the Food for Progress (FFPr) program (CFDA 10.606) to Land O'Lakes Venture37, a non-profit organization, to introduce and expand food resources in Lesotho. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Technical assistance, training, and capacity building to improve poultry production and agricultural development in Lesotho. This will involve developing poultry...

The Commodity Credit Corporation, a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has awarded a $20,125,000 Cooperative Agreement under the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (CFDA 10.608). This program aims to improve food security, reduce hunger, and enhance literacy and primary education in low-income, food-deficit countries. The award will be used to introduce and expand food resources in Benin over a multi-year project period. The...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $27,500,000 Cooperative Agreement through the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (CFDA 10.608) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on September 30, 2024. This funding supports a school feeding and literacy program in Laos, with a key sub-award to Catholic Relief Services - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (CRS-USCCB) to monitor the school meals program, implement inclusive...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a $546,765 Project Grant to South Carolina State University (SCSU) under the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328). The 3-year grant aims to provide training and technical assistance to increase the number of socially disadvantaged, beginning, and limited-resource farmers that are Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)-certified and Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) compliant. By targeting these underserved farming populations, the project...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $220,050 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University under the USDA's Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (CFDA 10.522). The 2-year grant, running from September 2023 to September 2025, will support the "The Farmpreneurs: Empowering Student Leaders to Increase Food Knowledge and Food Security in Their Urban Communities" project. Through this initiative, Rutgers will provide...