Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA FAS 10606 0700 23
The FY 2023 Food for Progress (FFPr) Program Notice of Funding Opportunity is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) grant competition that funds agricultural development projects in developing countries and emerging democracies that are committed to expanding free enterprise in their agricultural sectors. The program’s defining feature is that USDA donates U.S. agricultural commodities, which are typically sold in the recipient country’s local market, and the proceeds from those sales are then used to finance on-the-ground activities that strengthen agriculture and related markets. Awards are made as cooperative agreements, meaning recipients should expect substantial involvement from USDA/FAS in planning, coordination, oversight, and performance management compared to a more hands-off grant structure.
At the strategy level, FFPr is driven by two main objectives: increasing agricultural productivity and expanding trade in agricultural products at domestic, regional, and international levels. Productivity gains can include improving yields, resilience, efficiency, and farm profitability, while trade expansion can include building stronger value chains, improving quality and consistency, and enabling producers and agribusinesses to access higher-value markets. In practice, the program is aimed at helping countries move from subsistence or low-productivity systems toward more competitive, market-oriented agricultural sectors, while also improving food availability and livelihoods.
For FY 2023, USDA highlights three priority technical areas that applicants are expected to address in project design. First, Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is elevated as a required direction of travel: projects must incorporate climate-smart components wherever appropriate and directly respond to the growing risks climate change poses to farmers, food systems, and broader environmental conditions. This priority signals that proposals should not treat climate as a stand-alone add-on, but as a thread running through interventions such as improved water management, soil health, climate-resilient varieties, risk reduction practices, emissions-aware approaches, and resilience planning that can be realistically adopted and sustained by farmers and market actors.
Second, USDA emphasizes strengthening the Trade Enabling Environment (TEE), with a specific focus on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, food safety systems, and trade facilitation. The intent is to help countries reduce barriers and frictions that prevent agricultural products from moving efficiently and safely through supply chains and across borders. Applicants are encouraged to select sectors with clear end-market opportunities where consistent quality and safety standards matter, and to ensure that SPS and trade facilitation work is science-based. Importantly, USDA ties this priority back to food security by emphasizing the “three pillars” of food security in target countries: access to safe and nutritious food, affordability, and proper utilization. In other words, trade and regulatory modernization are not framed only as export promotion, but also as a pathway to safer, more reliable, and more affordable food supplies.
Third, USDA prioritizes strengthening food security in alignment with the broader U.S. Government approach, particularly Feed the Future (FTF) and the Global Food Security Act of 2016. FFPr projects are expected to contribute to ending hunger, poverty, and child malnutrition by helping farmers increase incomes and resilience through diversification, stronger market linkages, and adoption of good agricultural practices. Applicants are encouraged to align interventions with the Feed the Future results framework where it makes sense, and they are required to ensure activities are complementary rather than duplicative of other donor or USG efforts. This means proposals should demonstrate awareness of the existing landscape, show clear coordination, and explain how the project fills gaps or scales what works without repeating what is already funded elsewhere.
The NOFO also underscores USDA’s support for efforts to eliminate child labor and forced labor in agricultural supply chains. If a proposal targets countries or priority areas connected to goods identified in the U.S. Department of Labor’s “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor,” the application must include an analysis of child labor and/or forced labor risks. This requirement signals that projects should integrate responsible labor considerations into value chain development, training, monitoring, and private-sector engagement, rather than treating labor risk as a separate compliance exercise. The NOFO notes that country-specific guidance sections provide additional direction on how proposals should address these priorities and country goals, so applicants are expected to tailor their approach to the relevant country context.
From an administrative and eligibility standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity (CFDA 10.606) issued by USDA FAS under funding opportunity number USDA FAS 10606 0700 23. Eligible applicants include state governments, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) entities), plus other applicants as specified in the NOFO’s additional eligibility information. The opportunity was posted March 15, 2023, with an original application deadline of May 24, 2023. USDA anticipated making about seven awards, with an award ceiling of $39,000,000, indicating a program designed for relatively large, multi-year, multi-partner initiatives with measurable outcomes and substantial implementation capacity.
Overall, the FY 2023 FFPr NOFO is looking for proposals that use the commodity-and-proceeds model to fund practical agricultural development that raises productivity, strengthens market systems, and expands trade, while explicitly integrating climate-smart approaches, improving SPS/food safety and trade facilitation systems, aligning with Feed the Future food security goals, and addressing child/forced labor risks where applicable. Applicants that can clearly connect farm-level improvements to market access and regulatory enablement, demonstrate coordination with existing efforts, and present a credible plan for sustainable, locally owned impact are best positioned within the priorities described.Apply for USDA FAS 10606 0700 23
- The Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2023 Food Assistance Proposal Instructions and Request for Applications FOOD FOR PROGRESS PROGRAM NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.606.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 15, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 24, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $39,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 7 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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