Assistance program
Regional Food System Partnerships
$58.1 Million committed in FY2021–FY2025
- Agency
- Agricultural Marketing Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.177
- What it does
- RFSP is a component of the Local Agricultural Marketing Program (LAMP). RFSP supports partnerships that brings together public and private resources to plan and develop local or regional food systems and encourages food economy viability and resilience. Through RFSP, AMS works together with partners to accelerate local or regional food system growth through increased access to local knowledge and networks. Partners will lead the scope determination of the regional food system to be developed, including goals, outreach objectives, and eligible activities to be carried out, while coordinating with AMS to receive technical and financial assistance.
- Who benefits
- Projects that benefit producers, local and regional food business enterprises, and consumers.
- Who applies
- Applications can be submitted by an eligible entity or eligible partner. An application must have at least one eligible entity and eligible partner to be considered for funding. Eligible entities include producers; producer networks or associations; farmer or rancher cooperatives; majority-controlled producer-based business ventures; food councils; local or Tribal governments; nonprofit corporations; economic development corporations; public benefit corporations; community-supported agriculture networks or associations; and regional farmers’ market authorities. Eligible partners include State agencies or regional authorities; philanthropic organizations; private corporations; institution of higher educations; and commercial, Federal, or Farm Credit System lending institutions. Projects and applicants must be owned, operated, and located within the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories (American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands.
- Authorized by
- 7 U.S.C. § 1627c
- Program site
- https://www.ams.usda.gov/rfsp ↗
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