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Regional Food System Partnerships

Program Information

Popular name

RFSP, Partnerships

Program Number

10.177

Program objective

RFSP is a component of the Local Agricultural Marketing Program (LAMP). RFSP supports partnerships that brings together public and private resources to plan and develop local or regional food systems and encourages food economy viability and resilience. Through RFSP, AMS works together with partners to accelerate local or regional food system growth through increased access to local knowledge and networks. Partners will lead the scope determination of the regional food system to be developed, including goals, outreach objectives, and eligible activities to be carried out, while coordinating with AMS to receive technical and financial assistance.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2020

    Funded 23 projects. See https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/grants/rfsp/awards for more information.

  2. 2021

    Funded 23 projects. See https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/grants/rfsp/awards for more information.

  3. 2022

    Funded 23 projects. See https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/grants/rfsp/awards for more information.

  4. 2024

    Supported partnerships that brought together public and private resources to plan and develop local or regional food systems and encouraged food economy viability and resilience.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

An RFA is announced each fiscal year via www.grants.gov. Additional information about this program is available at www.ams.usda.gov/grants.