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.
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)
- Farm of the Future
- Federally-Recognized Tribes Extension Program
- Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative Extension Disaster Education Network (FADI-EDEN)
- 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
- National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Grants Program Funding Opportunity (NNF)
- 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 Extension Grant 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)
