In this webinar, the Office of Community Food Systems National Office Team provides an overview of the FY2021 Farm to School Grant Program Request for Applications (RFA), including information about eligibility, new Turnkey projects, and more. View this webinar to help become familiar with the requirements of the RFA and how to submit your completed application on grants.gov.

The 2010 Child Nutrition reauthorization also directed the Secretary of Agriculture to submit a report by the end of December each year to the U.S. House of Representatives Committees on Agriculture and Education and the Workforce, in addition to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. The annual reports are to describe the status of each demonstration project and the available results of any evaluations of the demonstration projects completed during the previous fiscal year (FY).

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) directed USDA to study the extent to which school food authorities (SFAs) participating in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP) pay indirect costs to local education agencies (LEAs). It specifically requested an assessment of the methodologies used to establish indirect costs, the types and amounts of indirect costs that are charged and not charged to the school food service account, and the types and amounts of indirect costs recovered by LEAs. To address the research questions, information was collected from four perspectives: (1) the State education agency finance officer, (2) the State child nutrition director, (3) the LEA business manager, and (4) the SFA director.

The STRIVE project, funded by USAID's Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) and managed by FHI 360, used market-led economic strengthening initiatives to improve the well-being of vulnerable children. Through STRIVE, ACDI/VOCA implemented the Agriculture for Children’s Empowerment (ACE) Project in Liberia, which is founded on the premise that increased household economic security will stimulate more consistent investments in children’s well being via longer term social investments in education and nutrition. ACE’s primary focus was on the horticulture value chain (VC) — the production and marketing of vegetables by smallholder farmers in Montserrado, Bong, and Nimba counties of Liberia. ACE also strengthened smallholder rice farming to increase household food security using a market-sensitive approach to rice seed lending and cultivation. This dataset contains information about each household.

Help us provide the most useful data by completing our ODP User Feedback Survey for School Nutrition Data,About the Dataset This dataset contains USDA Foods entitlement data for Contracting Entities (CE) approved to operate school nutrition programs for program year 2021-2022. USDA Foods entitlements are funds provided by the state to Texas schools for use on USDA Foods commodities. School nutrition programs operate July 1 through the June 30.,About Dataset Updates TDA aims to post new program year data by October 1 of the active program year and update this dataset monthly until the close of the program year. An overview of all TDA Food and Nutrition data available on the Texas Open Data Portal can be found at our TDA Data Overview - Food and Nutrition Open Data page.,More information about accessing and working with TDA data on the Texas Open Data Portal can be found on the SquareMeals.org website on the TDA Food and Nutrition Open Data page. About the Agency The Texas Department of Agriculture administers 12 U.S. Department of Agriculture nutrition programs in Texas including the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, the Child and Adult Care Food Programs (CACFP), and the summer meal programs. TDA’s Food and Nutrition division provides technical assistance and training resources to partners operating the programs and oversees the USDA reimbursements they receive to cover part of the cost associated with serving food in their facilities. By working to ensure these partners serve nutritious meals and snacks, the division adheres to its mission — Feeding the Hungry and Promoting Healthy Lifestyles.,

Help us provide the most useful data by completing our ODP User Feedback Survey for School Nutrition Data,About the Dataset This dataset contains USDA Foods entitlement data for Contracting Entities (CE) approved to operate school nutrition programs for program year 2022-2023. USDA Foods entitlements are funds provided by the state to Texas schools for use on USDA Foods commodities. School nutrition programs operate July 1 through the June 30.,About Dataset Updates TDA aims to post new program year data by October 1 of the active program year and update this dataset at least monthly until the close of the program year. An overview of all TDA Food and Nutrition data available on the Texas Open Data Portal can be found at our TDA Data Overview - Food and Nutrition Open Data page.,More information about accessing and working with TDA data on the Texas Open Data Portal can be found on the SquareMeals.org website on the TDA Food and Nutrition Open Data page. About the Agency The Texas Department of Agriculture administers 12 U.S. Department of Agriculture nutrition programs in Texas including the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, the Child and Adult Care Food Programs (CACFP), and the summer meal programs. TDA’s Food and Nutrition division provides technical assistance and training resources to partners operating the programs and oversees the USDA reimbursements they receive to cover part of the cost associated with serving food in their facilities. By working to ensure these partners serve nutritious meals and snacks, the division adheres to its mission — Feeding the Hungry and Promoting Healthy Lifestyles.,