Southern SARE is soliciting a national Call for Proposals for the CFP Food Loss and Waste Training and Technical Assistance Grants.
Donor Name: Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/28/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The purpose of the project is to implement outreach, training and technical assistance efforts to build capacity for food loss and waste initiatives.
The Call for Proposals is open to qualified applicants in the contiguous U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Micronesia, and Northern Mariana Islands.
The projects will span three (3) years, beginning on Sept. 1, 2024. Roughly two (2) to four (4) projects, capped at $1 million per proposal with an expected grant size of $500,000, are anticipated to be funded per SARE region: Southern SARE, North Central SARE, Northeast SARE, and Western SARE, so that regional priorities to addressing food loss and waste can be augmented, while allowing for national coordination and impacts. Funded proposals in each SARE region will total $2 million in funding. A total of $8 million is being funded nationally for the CFP Food Loss and Waste Training and Technical Assistance Grants effort.
Goals
The goals of the Food Loss and Waste Training and Technical Assistance Grants Program are to:
- Increase the self-reliance of communities in providing for their own food needs;
- Promote comprehensive responses to local food access, farm, and nutrition issues;
- Identify strategies for reducing food loss and waste by identifying value-added production opportunities;
- Meet specific state, local, or neighborhood food and agriculture needs for planning for long-term solutions;
- Create innovative marketing activities that mutually benefit agricultural stakeholders and consumers.
- Describe how the research or training and technical assistance will lead to improved quality of life for producers, communities and consumers.
It is anticipated that those goals can be achieved through:
- Recovering food and preventing food loss that occurs on the farm during harvest, storage, transportation, processing; waste in retail and food service establishments; in schools; in households/consumers; and through other miscellaneous activities;
- Developing linkages between food recovery organizations (such as gleaners), food producers, farmers, processors, and providers, and other stakeholders.
Criteria
Eligible entities whose goals and activities are centered on reducing Food Loss and Waste are invited to apply. This can include, but is not limited to, tribal organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs); community organizations; gleaning and food recovery organizations; public food program service providers; and academic institutions – 1862, 1890, and 1994 land-grants, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and other colleges/universities. Applications from organizations that address food insecurity in rural, tribal, and underserved communities are encouraged.
For more information, visit SARE.
