NIFA offers several technical assistance events to help prospective applicants understand NIFA funding opportunities. Supporting material from these events — which also provide guidance on grant development and grant management — is available here.
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture offers many funding opportunities to support research, education and Extension/outreach in most fields of food and agricultural sciences.
These funding opportunities include grants, cooperative agreements, scholarships and fellowships in plant and animal production and processing; food science and nutrition; climate and environmental impacts of agriculture; rural and community development; marketing and trade; and many other topics of national importance.
The technical assistance resources collected on this page will help you at each stage of the grant lifecycle, whether you’re applying to a NIFA funding opportunity or submitting technical and financial data or reporting significant accomplishments and impacts in REEport.
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Upcoming Technical Assistance Webinars and Events
Resources from NIFA
- These quarterly virtual workshops are intended to enhance both the accessibility and effectiveness of NIFA’s programs.
Resources from the National Agricultural Library
- This webinar covers publicly accessible resources and services available through the National Agricultural Library, including full-text research articles, data sources and management, and research support.
- This webinar provides details on how to meet the requirement to submit final, peer-reviewed, accepted manuscripts to PubAg, the USDA public access archive system.
- This webinar provides details on how to meet the requirement to report data assets in the National Ag Data Commons.

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