Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NIFA OP 009221
The Urban, Indoor, and Emerging Agriculture (UIE) grant opportunity is a National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) program that funds projects aimed at strengthening and expanding agriculture in urban settings, indoor production systems, and other emerging production approaches. The program is designed to support a mix of research, education, and extension activities that address practical, real-world problems that matter at the local, regional, and national level. In other words, proposals are expected to do more than generate knowledge; they should help move urban and indoor agriculture forward in ways that can be used by producers, communities, and the broader food system.
A key feature of this opportunity is that it recognizes urban and indoor agriculture as more than just growing food. The UIE program explicitly includes the full food value chain, meaning competitive projects can focus on production and cultivation issues as well as what happens after harvest. That includes harvesting practices, transportation and logistics, aggregation models, packaging, distribution pathways, and access to markets. This broader scope makes it a fit for projects that tackle operational bottlenecks and infrastructure challenges, such as improving supply chain efficiency for urban farms, developing safe and cost-effective post-harvest handling methods for indoor-grown produce, building aggregation and distribution models that work at small to mid scales, or creating market channels that improve profitability and food access.
Eligibility is broad, but it is still clearly defined. Applications can be submitted by state agricultural experiment stations, colleges and universities, university research foundations, other research institutions and organizations, federal agencies, national laboratories, private organizations (including foundations and corporations), individuals, or partnerships and groups made up of two or more of those eligible entity types. This structure allows for a wide range of applicants, including academic teams, public-private collaborations, and industry-led efforts, as long as they fit the listed categories. Importantly, even though not every organization may be eligible to apply directly, awardees are allowed to subcontract to organizations that are not eligible applicants when those partners are necessary to carry out the project. That can enable meaningful participation by community-based organizations, local nonprofits, municipal partners, or specialized technical firms through subawards or contracts, as long as the primary applicant meets eligibility rules.
The solicitation stresses compliance and application integrity. Applicants must meet all requirements laid out in the Request for Applications (RFA), and failure to satisfy eligibility criteria by the deadline can result in an application being excluded from review or prevent NIFA from making an award. It also prohibits duplicate or multiple submissions by the same team for the same objectives; if a team submits essentially the same proposal more than once, NIFA will disqualify both submissions. For applicants who are new to federal grants, NIFA points to its Grants Overview resources as a recommended starting place to understand expectations, documentation, and how the federal awards process works.
From the source details provided, this is a mandatory grant opportunity administered by USDA NIFA under Funding Opportunity Number USDA NIFA OP 009221, listed under CFDA 10.333 (Agriculture). The award ceiling is $1,000,000, indicating the program can support relatively substantial projects, and it is positioned as a competitive funding pathway for high-impact work in this space. The original closing date shown is September 22, 2022, and the opportunity record was created June 7, 2022, which matters for timing if someone is checking whether this specific posting is still open versus a newer cycle.
Finally, NIFA explicitly notes that there are other related competitive programs that support urban agriculture and encourages applicants to review the UIE program webpage for alternatives that may better match a proposed project. Practically, that means if a concept is close but not perfectly aligned with UIE priorities or structure, NIFA is signaling there may be another funding track within its portfolio that fits the same general theme of urban and indoor agriculture.Apply for USDA NIFA OP 009221
- The National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Urban, Indoor, and Emerging Agriculture" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.333.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2022-06-07.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2022-09-22. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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