USDA invests $7.4 million in 25 urban agriculture and innovative production projects
Fecha de inicio:
18/07/2023
Fecha de fin:
18/07/2023
Description
This news article details the USDA's $7.4 million investment in 25 grants to support urban agriculture and innovative production projects in economically vulnerable communities. The projects include community gardens and nonprofit farms that promote food production, access to healthy food, education, job training, and business plan development. Recipients include initiatives that provide employment and training for youth, strengthen local food systems, and promote sustainable practices in cities across 16 states and territories.
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Action scope
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Thematic Areas:
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Instruments:
- Technical assistance to producers
- Strategies, plans, policies or guidelines; sectoral or national
- Fostering of associativity
- Individual capacity building
- Institutional capacity building
- Influence on public policies
- Policy Monitoring and Evaluation
- Collect, analyze, disseminate and exchange data and information between countries
- Linkages between producers and value chains and markets
Resultados:
- Policy Coherence and Alignment
- Social learning
- Productive diversification
- Public policy development and implementation
- Governability
- Production inclusion
- Social inclusion
- Improved productivity
- Improvement in technical assistance and rural extension services
- Improved living conditions
- Food and nutritional security
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