Assistance program
Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities
$2.2 Billion committed in FY2022–FY2026
- Agency
- Natural Resources Conservation Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.937
- What it does
- The Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities aim to achieve the following outcomes through a variety of pilot projects: • Increased markets (supply and demand) for climate-smart commodities; • Increased adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry (CSAF) practices and systems that reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and/or increase carbon sequestration from the agricultural sector; • Demonstration of scalable and low-cost measurement/quantification, monitoring, reporting, and verification (MMRV) systems; • Increased innovation and consistency in measuring/quantifying farm-level greenhouse gas benefits; • Testing and evaluation of efficient traceability through supply chains from production of commodity to delivery to the consumer; • Improved understanding and communication of economic and adaptation benefits, as well as ancillary environmental benefits; • Equitable administration that includes small and underserved producers as well as early adopters (i.e., producers who have already used some climate-smart approaches); • Understanding of marketability advantages for a variety of farm types; • Empowerment of farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners to drive Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry markets and practice adoption; and • Development of additional public-private partnerships to foster and develop Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry markets.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Eligibility is further restricted to domestic applicants. Applicants and applications must meet eligibility criteria by the application deadline to be considered for award. Eligible applicant type is consistent with the statutory authority for this funding opportunity. Applicant entities identified in the SAM.gov exclusions database as ineligible, prohibited/restricted, or excluded from receiving Federal contracts and certain Federal assistance and benefits will not be considered for Federal funding, as applicable to the funding being requested under this Federal program (2 CFR 200.206(d)). The primary applicant must demonstrate an existing relationship with and/or prior experience working with producers or landowners. Additionally, at minimum one project partner must have existing experience working with underserved producers or landowners. This information will be used when evaluating the application in the equity criteria. Individuals, including individual agricultural producers, farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners, may also be eligible as subrecipients but may not be the primary applicant/recipient. Recipients may only enroll agricultural producers and land owners who are compliant with highly erodible land (HEL) and wetland conservation (WC) requirements as described under 7 CFR part 12. Awards made pursuant to the relevant NOFO are not subject to any payment limitations. However, any agricultural producers or land owners receiving a payment through participation in a project awarded under a relevant NOFO must meet the eligibility requirements of 7 CFR Part 12 and 7 CFR Part 1400 and have control of the land involved for the term of the proposed award period.
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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