The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Fellowship Programs, announces this funding opportunity to support the Cochran Fellowship Program (CFP) by issuing new awards.
Donor Name: Foreign Agricultural Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 07/31/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $150,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The Cochran Fellowship Program intends to support the design and delivery of a training program of 1-2 consecutive weeks duration, to take place in either calendar year 2023 or 2024 depending on availability of all parties, for 12 Fellows from multiple countries. More than one such program may be supported.
This opportunity is available to Minority Serving Institutions. This program is intended to support improved understanding of the principles of urban agriculture among program participants.
Objectives
The recipient will ensure that the Fellows improve their knowledge in the following areas:
- Community building, engagement, education, and extension service creation emphasizing marginalized and underserved communities.
- Innovative growing techniques, such as vertical, hydroponic, aeroponic, raised beds, rooftop, permaculture, agroforests, indoor growing, green walls, and intensive growing.
- Community garden creation, regulations, and bylaws.
- Accessible gardens for all people; wheelchairs, children, and elderly populations.
- Nutrition of urban gardens; how to ensure production is balanced and how to teach nutrition to a diverse audience.
- Soil testing, building productive growth mediums, and composting.
- Marketing of produce including food processing when appropriate.
- Farmers market creation, regulations, and bylaws.
- School gardens, working with children, science and technology-based lens of agriculture.
- Small animal production in urban settings, including waste management.
- Water management; irrigation, rain collection, water quality management, and testing.
- Pest management; identification and irradiation.
- Apiculture; for improved production, honey, and sustainability.
- Climate resilient practices to increase production and to create oases within urban settings.
Funding Information
Total Available Federal Funding: Up to $300,000 total, up to $150,000 per award
Project Period
- Projected Period of Performance Start: September 1, 2023
- Projected Period of Performance End: August 31, 2024
Eligibility Criteria
State cooperative institutions or other colleges and universities in the United States, as defined, which qualify as any one of the following:
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as defined by the Higher Education Act.
- Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), as defined by the Higher Education Act.
- Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), as defined by the Higher Education Act.
- Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions; (AANAPISIs), as defined by the Higher Education Act and
- Predominately Black Institutions (PBIs), as defined by the Higher Education Act of 2008, 20.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
