Project Grant AIDDFDG000800130

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded Foodshed Cooperative Inc. a $564,500 Project Grant under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. Foodshed will transition its emergency food distribution operations implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic to a sustainable model increasing retail sales 25% annually. Funding will support planning with Foodshed's farmer network to achieve aggregation goals and improve distribution capacity at its Central San Diego...

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded Planting Justice $703,025 under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program to establish new market access opportunities for small local growers in the Bay Area through September 2024. The project will operate a farmers' market truck serving stops in Oakland and Richmond, establishing market access for at least five growers and serving an estimated 15,600 customers annually. A weekly farmers' market will also be...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency awarded Catholic Relief Services - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops a $288,500 project grant under the Food for Progress program (CFDA 10.606) on February 28, 2021. The grant aims to improve agricultural productivity and expand agricultural trade in target countries through the Food for Progress program, which has the principal objectives of improving agricultural productivity and expanding trade of agricultural products...

The Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA) received a $192,816 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP). RAFI-USA will develop eight new Community Supported Agriculture partnerships between small-scale farmers from its Farmers of Color Network and North Carolina churches over two years. Each partnership will create a direct producer-to-consumer market...

This $347,639 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service under the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (CFDA 10.935) program will fund the North South Institute, Inc., a woman-owned non-profit organization, to plan and establish model urban and peri-urban community food systems in Broward, Palm Beach, and Indian River Counties in Florida. The project aims to utilize selected high school and veteran farming clusters to increase...

This $648,764 federal Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) aims to address key challenges facing the U.S. agricultural sector in the biotech crop era. The project will construct a comprehensive dataset on the seed market, productivity, innovation, pest infestation and resistance, weather and climate, and international trade, and then conduct advanced economic analysis to evaluate policy...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a $6,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program to Asociacion Semilla Nueva, a non-profit organization based in Guatemala. The "Biofortified Maize: Farming for Nutrition Activity" award supports the development and dissemination of biofortified maize varieties to improve nutrition and food security in Guatemala. The 3-year project, running from August 2024...

The Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency awarded a $597,950 project grant to Technoserve, Inc. on May 6, 2021 under the Food for Progress program (CFDA 10.606). The grant aimed to improve agricultural productivity and expand agricultural trade in the target country through Technoserve's provision of services. Specifically, Technoserve will work to increase food production and commercialization of agricultural goods using the funding provided under this award over its May 2021 completion...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports a two-year postdoctoral fellowship focused on measuring the impacts of community seed banks on nutrition, food security, and food sovereignty in underserved regions of the United States. The research objective is to identify existing agrobiodiversity conservation initiatives, such as community seed banks, in high-poverty and food-insecure regions, and trace...

The $312,500 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service through the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) supports the People's Produce Mobile Farmers Market. Operated by Project New Village under the People's Produce Project name, the mobile farmers market delivers healthy, affordable locally grown produce and other nutritious foods to low-income residents and SNAP/CalFresh beneficiaries using a refrigerated food truck. The...