Grant opportunity
USDA Food for Progress Program FY2026
USDA's Food for Progress FY2026 opportunity supports agricultural development, trade, and food security work in priority countries.
- Funder
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- See official NOFO and priority-country documents
- See official NOFO and priority-country documents
- Award
- Grant or cooperative agreement support for agriculture, trade, and food security projects
- Applicant
- Eligible organisations
- Discipline
- Agriculture, Food & Environment
- Region
- Priority countries
- Posted
- May 24, 2026
Call summary
Overview
The Food for Progress Program helps developing countries and emerging democracies modernise and strengthen agricultural sectors, improve trade, and address food security needs.
Who can apply
- Eligible organisations should review the official NOFO and priority-country documents.
- Applicants should confirm eligible countries, commodity monetisation rules, partnership requirements, and submission instructions in the official Grants.gov listing.
What it supports
- Agricultural development, food security, trade, market systems, and priority-country programming.
- Projects should respond to the FY2026 Food for Progress objectives and country priorities.
Funding and duration
Funding is provided through USDA Food for Progress under the official FY2026 NOFO and associated priority-country documents.
See official NOFO and priority-country documents
See official NOFO and priority-country documents
How to apply
Use the official Grants.gov/Simpler Grants listing to review all NOFO documents and submit according to USDA instructions.
Call details
About the opportunity
The Food for Progress Program helps developing countries and emerging democracies modernise and strengthen agricultural sectors, improve trade, and address food security needs.
U.S. Department of Agriculture lists this opportunity for Eligible organisations, Agriculture, Food & Environment, Priority countries.
This listing is written for researchers, students, universities, NGOs, research teams, policy professionals and academic institutions searching for Agriculture, Food & Environment grants, fellowships, scholarships, conferences, workshops and funding opportunities in Priority countries contexts.
Eligibility
Eligible organisations should review the official NOFO and priority-country documents.
Applicants should confirm eligible countries, commodity monetisation rules, partnership requirements, and submission instructions in the official Grants.gov listing.
Funding and benefits
Funding is provided through USDA Food for Progress under the official FY2026 NOFO and associated priority-country documents.
Themes and supported activities
Agricultural development, food security, trade, market systems, and priority-country programming.
Projects should respond to the FY2026 Food for Progress objectives and country priorities.
Deadline and timeline
See official NOFO and priority-country documents: See official NOFO and priority-country documents.
Applicants should confirm the exact deadline time, time zone, required documents, portal steps and any institutional approvals on the official call page before submitting.
How to apply
Use the official Grants.gov/Simpler Grants listing to review all NOFO documents and submit according to USDA instructions.
Before applying, check eligibility rules, budgets, attachments, page limits, partner requirements, cost-share conditions and whether the opportunity uses an expression of interest, full proposal, registration or nomination stage.