Deadline: 16-May-22
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), requests applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Regional Food System Partnerships (RFSP) grant program.
USDA 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.
The RFSP supports partnerships that connect public and private resources to plan and develop local or regional food systems. The RFSP focuses on building and strengthening local or regional food economy viability and resilience, and this includes pandemic response and recovery.
Goals
The primary goals of LAMP are to:
- Connect and cultivate regional food economies through public-private partnerships.
- Support the development of business plans, feasibility studies, and strategies for value-added agricultural production and local and regional food system infrastructure.
- Strengthen capacity and regional food system development through community collaboration and expansion of mid-tier value chains.
- Improve income and economic opportunities for producers and food businesses through job creation; and
- Simplify the application processes and the reporting processes for the Program.
Priority Areas
AMS will prioritize applications that:
- Leverage significant non-Federal financial and technical resources and coordinate with other local, State, Tribal, or national efforts. Any match resources included in the proposal above and beyond the match requirement may lend support to the proposal.
- Cover an area that includes distressed low-income rural or urban communities with areas of persistent poverty that provide significant opportunities for high impact investment; or
- Have multiple entities and partners, although such partners need not be based in the partnership’s defined region.
Funding Information
Approximately $40 million will be available to fund applications under this solicitation. RFSP Planning and Design projects range from $100,000 to $250,000, while Implementation and Expansion projects and Farm to Institutions projects range from $250,000 to $1,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants must be domestic entities owned, operated, and located within the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or Tribal Governments.
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