FFWR
AIMI Restoring Resilience in Indigenous and Land Based Communities by Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access for Producers
USDA launched the Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access (Increasing Land Access) Program to help underserved producers by increasing land, capital, and market access. The program funds cooperative agreements or grants for projects that help move underserved producers from surviving to thriving. Land access is critical to the success of agriculture. Underserved producers have not received the amount of specialized technical support that would benefit the launch, growth, resilience, and success of their agricultural enterprises.
AIMI's Land Access Program for producers
The overall goal of this project is to heal cultural trauma through farmland access and cooperation among Indigenous-led regional organizations. Reclaiming land makes a difference in healing cultural traumas. This project seeks to form Indigenous Farming Cooperatives (IFC) with similar cooperative entities that create solidarity through which farmland and wraparound technical assistance services can be provided to Indigenous farmers; facilitate educational mentorship programs; and build collective resources. A partner team will work to establish or plan IFCs or similar collaborative operations in each of four target geographic areas, and support Indigenous and Land Based farmers’ access to land, capital, and markets through the programs offered by each entity. As a result, Indigenous, rural farmer and producer competitiveness and adaptability will improve—moving these farmers from surviving to thriving.
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Virginia
- Georgia
- Puerto Rico
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Learn more about the USDA's Land Access Program. Learn how and why it began to help producers in rural areas.
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We are now accepting applications for the FFWR Program!
Farm workers & Meat processing facility workers can apply for the One-time payment of $600 with proof of identity and employment at a meat processing facility or farm.