Project Grant 59900080142

This cooperative agreement award of $300,000 from the Department of Agriculture Office of the Chief Economist through the Agricultural Market and Economic Research program (CFDA 10.290) will support economic modeling and analysis to inform policymaking. The awardee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, will update global agricultural models to current USDA and OECD/FAO projections and conduct counterfactual trade scenarios excluding the U.S. to analyze impacts of competitive free...

This three-year, $650,000 project grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will fund research at the University of Connecticut to generate new knowledge about preferential trade agreements (PTAs), their impact on global agricultural and food trade, and consequences for US farm businesses and employment. Using newly collected PTA data and statistical modeling techniques including random...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Chief Economist provides $100,000 to Kansas State University to examine the role of agricultural trade and spatial correlation in climate change adaptation under the Agricultural Market and Economic Research federal grant program (CFDA #10.290). Nelson Villoria and Jesse Tack from Kansas State University will work with the Office of the Chief Economist to conduct an extensive literature review and empirical...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service awarded a $38,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program (CFDA 10.618) to Cotton Council International, a nonprofit agricultural trade organization. The funding is to conduct approved market development activities intended to foster expanded exports and market diversification for U.S. agricultural commodities and products. The 5-year award, effective June 1, 2024, will support strategic...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded a $101,062.50 Cooperative Agreement grant under the Transportation Services program (CFDA 10.167) to The Agriculture Transportation Coalition Inc. on July 31, 2024. The purpose of this award is to conduct a series of agricultural shipper workshops over 13 months, from July 2024 to August 2025, to help keep U.S. agricultural exports competitive in the global marketplace. The workshops will provide agricultural shippers...

The Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service awarded a $500,000 cooperative agreement to the Inter American Institute For Cooperation On Agriculture from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The award will support capacity building for the prevention of emerging animal diseases in the Western Hemisphere under the Technical Agricultural Assistance federal grant program (CFDA #10.960). The Inter American Institute For Cooperation On Agriculture will deliver technical...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $2,050,000.00 was granted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the Intertribal Agriculture Council, Inc. (IAC) to maintain the Intertribal Technical Assistance Network (ITAN). The purpose of ITAN is to provide technical assistance to federally recognized tribal governments, their communities, and constituents to enable and facilitate their access to all USDA programs and services. This award, made under the Tribal Agriculture Technical Assistance...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) supports the Intertribal Agriculture Council, Inc. (IAC) in facilitating joint training on agricultural programs and Indian land tenure between the USDA and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The $118,317 award, made on December 16, 2024, is funded through the USDA's Tribal Agriculture Technical Assistance program (CFDA 10.048). The project aims to increase access and use of USDA programs and services by Indian...

The Intertribal Agriculture Council, Inc. (IAC) received a $10 million cooperative agreement award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the American Rescue Plan Technical Assistance Investment Program (CFDA 10.234). Over a five-year period from April 2022 through March 2027, IAC will collaborate with USDA to deliver targeted technical assistance and related activities to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in Indian Country. Since 1987, IAC has promoted Indian...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service awarded a $31,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program (CFDA 10.618) to the Food Export Association of the Midwest USA. The award, effective June 1, 2024, is intended to support the organization's approved market development activities focused on fostering expanded exports and market diversification for U.S. agricultural commodities and products. The program aims to encourage the development,...