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  • About
    • Mission & Vision
    • Who We Are
    • Who We Serve
    • How We Serve
    • Statement of Value
  • Programs & Projects
    • Programs >
      • The Center for Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development (CEED)
      • First Development Capital Fund (FDCF)
      • Training & Outreach
      • Landbank Trust & Workforce Investment (LWI)
      • Cooperative, Small Business, Rural Enterprise Development (CSBRED)
      • Venture Philanthropy Initiative (VPI)
      • Global Education Program International Business, Entrepreneurship, Trade and Development
      • Online Professional Training Initiative (OPTI)
    • Projects >
      • Veteran Small Farm & Incubator Program
      • Beginning Farmers & Rachel Women, Girls, and Youth Initiative
      • Socially Disadvantaged and Limited Resource Farmers and Ranchers Outreach
      • Urban Community Development Farms/Gardens
      • Rural Microenterprises Assistance​
      • Farmers Market and Local Food System Initiative
      • Risk Management Education
      • Climate Smart Agriculture Technology/CIE
  • Support
    • Programmatic Funding
    • Rachel Project
    • Osbourne Scholarship Fund
    • Volunteer
  • News & Events
    • Blog
    • Annual Symposium
    • Echo-Workshop & Study Tours
    • Webinars
    • Past Events Photo Gallery
  • Resources
    • NSI TV
    • Newsletters
    • Technical Reports
    • Tools & Templates
    • NSI Research
  • Market Place
    • Our Producers (Farmers Directory)
    • The Market
    • Recipes
2501- Outreach & CyPres Projects
Socially Disadvantaged and Limited Resource Farmers and Ranchers Outreach

The focus of this project is Building Capacity and Resilience of Small and Medium-Sized Socially Disadvantaged Farmers Increase Participation in Federal Programs. In this project Institute serves four types of producers. The Advance and Mature Farmers (40%) who own, operate, or have the foundations to own Sustainable and Viable Farms & Ranches (SVFR); the Intermediate Farmers (20%) who need continued support on a trajectory to build SVFR; the Nascent Farmers (20%) who receive support and have the potential, but are slow to yield desired results for SVFR; and the New and Beginning Farmers (20%) who lack information on accessing USDA programs and technical knowledge of agricultural protocols to build SVFR.

For the past two and half decades, the Institute has used a Comprehensive Hub and Extension Spokes Strategy (CHESS) focusing on two Strategic Objectives to assist these producers in: (1) increasing agricultural productivity and (2) accessing commercial marketing opportunities, thereby increasing local and domestic trade of Specialty Farm Food Products. This strategy has resulted in the implementation of best practices whereby a foundation of producers has been created who have expanded their farming operations and/or transitioned from low productivity, underemployment and unemployment into commercially viable and economically sustainable enterprises7. The implementation of this strategy has been supported through the facilitation in accessing over 20 USDA programs in seven Agencies and Offices to provide the requisite Basket of Services and Resources™.  
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