Farm to School Grant Program
Four different kinds of grants are available. Planning grants are for schools or school districts just getting started on farm to school activities; they’re designed to help them organize and structure...
View ArticleAgriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Request for Applications (RFA)
NIFA is requesting applications for AFRI Food Security Challenge Area Program for FY 2015. AFRI is a competitive grant program to provide funding for fundamental and applied research, education, and...
View Article2015 Southern SARE Graduate Student Grant Calls for Proposals
GRIFFIN, Georgia -- The Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has released the 2015 Call for Proposals for Graduate Student Grants.Graduate Student Grants are one of...
View ArticleGrant Opportunity: Childhood Obesity Prevention
USDA-NIFA-AFRI Grant OpportunityThe Childhood Obesity Prevention Challenge Area focuses on the societal challenge to end obesity among children, the number one nutrition-related problem in the US. Food...
View ArticleGrant Opportunity: Food Safety
USDA-NIFA-AFRI Grant OpportunityThis AFRI Childhood Obesity Prevention Challenge Area promotes and enhances the scientific discipline of food safety, with an overall aim of protecting consumers from...
View ArticleGrant Opportunity: Agriculture and Natural Resources Science for Climate...
USDA-NIFA-AFRI Grant OpportunityThis AFRI Challenge Area focuses on the priority to mitigate and adapt to climate variability and change. It supports activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions,...
View ArticleSouthern SARE Releases Research & Education Grants Calls for Proposals
Visit this link to read the guidelines for writing and submitting the grant application. The deadline for submitting pre-proposals is 11:59 p.m. EST on June 1, 2015. If selected, applicants will be...
View ArticleSouthern SARE Grant Call for Local and Regional Food Systems
The special grant, part of SSARE’s Sustainable Community Innovations Grant (SCIG) program, is open to any individuals, non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, governmental organizations...
View ArticleUSDA AMS Grant: Specialty Crop Block Grant Program
Over $63.2 million in Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) grants are allocated to U.S. States and Territories based on a formula that considers both specialty crop acreage and production value....
View ArticleUSDA AMS Grant: Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program
The Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program provides a combined total of $26.6 million divided equally between its two grant programs. The Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) provides $13.3...
View ArticleUSDA AMS Grant: Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program
The FSMIP provides $1 million in matching funds to State Departments of Agriculture, State colleges and universities, and other appropriate State agencies. Funds will support research projects that...
View ArticleFarm to School Mini-grants [KY, LA, PA]
The National Farm to School Network and the Walmart Foundation are giving away 100 $5,000 mini grants to nonprofit schools, preschools, Head Start programs and school districts across Kentucky,...
View ArticleUSDA Rural Development Value Added Producer Grant
USDA Rural Development Value Added Producer Grant applications are now available.Independent producers, agricultural producer groups, farmer- or rancher-cooperatives, and majority-controlled...
View ArticleFoundational Program Grant
USDA-NIFA-AFRI Grant OpportunityThe AFRI Foundational Program is offered to support research grants in the six AFRI priority areas to continue building a foundation of knowledge critical for solving...
View ArticleGrant Opportunity: Water for Agriculture
USDA-NIFA-AFRI Grant OpportunityNational Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) initiates a new challenge area to address critical water resources issues such as drought, excess soil moisture,...
View Article“Seeds of Native Health” Promising Program Grant Opportunity
Seeds of Native Health is a comprehensive, national campaign to improve Native American nutrition through capacity building, education and research, supported by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux...
View ArticleUSDA Seeks Applications for Grants to Provide Development Support to Rural...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is accepting applications for grants to help rural cooperatives develop new markets for their products and services. USDA is making the...
View ArticleLocal Foods, Local Places Technical Assistance
Supporting local food production can improve economic opportunities for local farmers and businesses and give residents better access to healthy, fresh food. It can also spur revitalization of a main...
View ArticleSARE Producer Grant Call for Proposals
The Call for Proposals for the 2015 Producer Grants, intended for farmers/ranchers and farmer/rancher organizations throughout the Southern region, is now available from the Southern Sustainable...
View ArticleFund-a-Farmer Grants
Call for Applications!The Fund-a-Farmer Project provides grants to qualifying humane farmers who need assistance in improving the welfare of their farm animals. Grants of up to $2,500 will be awarded...
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