Micro-Grants for Food Security Program

MGFSP assists agricultural agencies or departments in eligible states and territories to increase the quantity and quality of locally grown food in food insecure communities through small-scale gardening, herding, and livestock operations by competitively distributing subawards to eligible entities.USDA

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promotes climate-resilient landscapes and rural economic systems, including tools to support agriculture, forests, grazing lands, and rural communities.

AMS encourages applicants to consider including goals and activities related to reducing and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or adapting to the already occurring climate change in their project’s design and implementation.
Agency: Department of Agriculture

Office: Agricultural Marketing Service

Estimated Funding: $5,000,000





Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
https://www.ams.usda.gov/mgfsp

Additional Information of Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are agricultural agencies or departments in Alaska, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the United States Virgin Islands.

A State department of agriculture is the agency, commission, or department of the government responsible for agriculture within the State, Territory, or Insular area.

Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://www.ams.usda.gov/mgfsp

Contact:


Agency Email Description:
IPPGrants@usda.gov

Agency Email:


Date Posted:
2024-03-21

Application Due Date:


Archive Date:
2024-06-20



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