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2019 Grantees

Supporting Native agriculture

As part of its mission to support Native farmers and ranchers, The grants support:
NAAF issues formal Requests for Applications (RFAs) for
funding to support the Native food and agricultural sector
across the country. • Increased access to credit and agricultural services for
Native farmers and ranchers
In August 2019, NAAF announced its inaugural RFA.
• Agricultural business training for producers and
Groups eligible for the competitive grants include: 501(c)
educational scholarships to encourage the growth of the
(3) organizations, educational organizations, CDFIs and
next generation of agriculture leaders
Native CDFIs, and state and federally recognized Tribal
governments. These grants support the above organizations • Innovative, community-led work toward ensuring
to provide business assistance, agricultural education, that food sovereignty and traditional foods flourish
technical support and advocacy services to Native farmers within Native communities and are not lost to future
and ranchers. The 2019 RFA placed a special emphasis on generations
projects related to traditional foods/food sovereignty, hemp
production feasibility studies, youth programming and • Analysis of the potential for investment in emerging
agriculture science. food and fiber markets in ways that will stabilize Native
producers and their communities
In late December 2019, NAAF announced funding for $10
• Value-added agriculture activities to assist producers in
million in grants to 80 organizations serving Native farmers
finding new markets for their products
and ranchers across the country. The grants fund the work of
a variety of Native-led organizations, and strike at the core of
• Youth programming
the issues that led to the creation of NAAF.

Targeted areas special emphasis areas

Targeted 501c3: Traditional foods & food sovereignty:

Providing services to support Native farmers' Supporting community-led efforts to
and ranchers' continued agricultural increase access to traditional foods and
involvement
bolster Indigenous food sovereignty

Targeted Educational: Hemp production feasibility:
Conducting advanced agricultural business
classroom training for producers Exploring opportunities for the emerging
industrial hemp sector as a component of
the overall Native agriculture economy

Targeted CDFI: Youth programming:
Financing agricultural and food production Mobilizing Native youth to be leaders in
in Indian Country agriculture

Targeted Tribe: Agricultural science:
Promoting value-added agricultural
development enterprises as a key to Native Sponsoring Native scholars to pursue
economic development agriculture degrees

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