[PCA] News Release: USDA to Extend Application Deadlines for Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Funding Opportunity

[Park, Margaret E]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending the deadlines to apply for the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity after requests from many stakeholders.

The new deadlines to apply via Grants.gov<https://www.grants.gov/>  by 11:59 p.m. ET:

  *   First Funding Pool – May 6, 2022
Proposals from $5 million to $100 million
  *   Second Funding Pool – June 10, 2022
Proposals from $250,000 to $4,999,999

The Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity will finance pilot projects that create market opportunities for U.S. agricultural and forestry products that use climate-smart production practices and include innovative, cost-effective ways to measure and verify greenhouse gas benefits. USDA began accepting project applications for fiscal year 2022 on Feb. 7, 2022, and since then, Department officials have heard from many stakeholders that an extension would allow them to prepare more robust applications to further development of climate-smart markets for a diverse range of producers.

Funding will be provided to partners through the USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation<https://www.usda.gov/ccc> for pilot projects to provide incentives to producers and landowners to:

  *   Implement climate-smart production practices, activities, and systems on working lands,
  *   Measure/quantify, monitor, and verify the carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits associated with those practices, and
  *   Develop markets and promote the resulting climate-smart commodities.

Who can apply?

  *   County, city or township governments
  *   Special district governments
  *   State governments
  *   Small businesses
  *   For profit organizations other than small businesses
  *   Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
  *   Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
  *   Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) (other than institutions of higher education)
  *   Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) (other than institutions of higher education)
  *   Private institutions of higher education, or
  *   Public and State-controlled institutions of higher education.

More information:
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/releases/?cid=NRCSEPRD1898239
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