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.

GrantAgricultureFood securityTradeInternational development
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.