This $150,000 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328) will support a 24-month community outreach project focused on meeting the food safety training needs of underserved, BIPOC, and immigrant farmers in urban and rural areas of Greene County, Missouri. The project will be led by the non-profit organization Springfield Community Gardens and will partner with University of Missouri Extension to provide FSMA Produce...
This Project Grant award of $149,979.00 from the Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture is for the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328). The University of California Office of the President Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, doing business as the Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources, will use the funding to provide hands-on technical assistance and culturally/linguistically appropriate food safety educational resources to historically...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $149,580 Project Grant under its Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328) to the University of Illinois. The grant aims to develop and deliver a customized food safety outreach program to underserved urban farmers in Illinois. The key objectives are to: 1) identify specific food safety training needs and barriers to access food safety resources within urban minority growers in the Chicagoland area and...
This $760,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) under the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328) aims to enhance food safety education and support for implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) in the Western region of the United States. The award supports a coalition of food safety specialists from land-grant universities, Alaska Native-serving, Native Hawaiian-serving, and Hispanic-serving...
This $400,000 project grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328) will fund the development of produce safety educational videos and posters in native languages for refugee fresh produce growers in Iowa, Kansas and Missouri through August 2025. Iowa State University will lead the effort to create videos and posters in appropriate cultural contexts to build knowledge of food safety regulations among...
This $109,090 Project Grant award, provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) through the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328), will build local training and education capacity in Hawaii to support stakeholders in complying with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The University of Hawaii (UH) Cooperative Extension will lead this 3-year project to identify and train local food safety educators from UH, state...
This $494,999 Food Safety Outreach Program project grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.328), will develop and implement innovative, accessible, and culturally appropriate food safety training for diverse produce growers in Kansas, Missouri, and South Dakota. The project team, led by Kansas State University, will utilize augmented reality (AR) tools to provide on-farm produce safety training to growers based on the Food Safety...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $299,800 Project Grant to Ourspace World, Inc., a non-profit organization, under the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328). The grant will fund the "De-Mystifying FSMA: Creating a Food Safety Education and Training Program to Increase Market Access for Black Producers and Chefs in the Mid-Atlantic US" project over a 2-year period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025. The project aims...
The Lincoln University of Jefferson City, Missouri will receive $1.3 million from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328) to deliver collaborative education and training in food safety for Missouri small farmers, processors, and their direct service providers from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The project aims to increase food safety capabilities through training that establishes...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) awarded a $494,919 Project Grant through the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328) to the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, aims to provide interactive on-farm food safety training to farm workers and underserved farmers in Louisiana and Florida. Key components include developing educational materials covering good agricultural practices...