Competitive grant programs enable NIFA, via a rigorous peer review process, to select the highest quality proposals from a large pool of institutions and organizations. Each competitive program may have different eligibility rules. This page contains links to all competitive grant programs including Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) programs and non-AFRI programs.
AFRI Competitive Grant Programs
- AFRI Education and Workforce Development
- AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program
- AFRI Sustainable Agricultural Systems
- AFRI Interagency Programs
Non-AFRI Competitive Grant Programs
- AgrAbility
- Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI)
- Agriculture Business Innovation Center at an Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Program
- Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) Program
- Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Competitive Grants Program (ANNH)
- Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP)
- Bioproduct Pilot Program
- Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants (BRAG) Program
- Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture Program
- Children, Youth and Families at Risk (CYFAR)
- Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program (CFP)
- Crop Protection and Pest Management Program (CPPM)
- Emergency Citrus Disease Research and Extension (ECDRE)
- Enhancing Agricultural Opportunities for Military Veterans (AgVets)
- Equipment Grants Program (EGP)
- Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN)
- Federally-Recognized Tribes Extension Program
- Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative Extension Disaster Education Network (FADI-EDEN)
- Food and Agricultural Education Information System (FAEIS)
- Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Grants Program
- Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (FASLP)
- Food Safety Outreach Program
- Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program
- Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program
- Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP)
- Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants (HSI) Program
- Laying Hen and Turkey Research Program
- National Water Quality Program
- New Beginning for Tribal Students (NBTS)
- New Technologies for Ag Extension
- Organic Agriculture Program
- Regional Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Centers of Excellence (RNECE)
- Resident Instruction Grants (RIIA) and Distance Education Grants (DEG) for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas
- Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants (SPECA) Program
- Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs (SBIR/STTR)
- Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program
- Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI)
- Sustainable Agriculture Programs
- Tribal College Research Grant Program
- Tribal Equity Grants Program
- Tribal Colleges Extension Program
- Urban, Indoor and Emerging Agriculture
- Veterinary Services Grant Program
- WIC Workforce Development Initiative
- Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Fields Grant Program (WAMS)