The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the initial project selection for the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently visited a farm in Wisconsin to commemorate this milestone. The projects selected through this initiative aim to raise awareness and implement climate-smart production practices on working lands, benefiting farmers, ranchers, and private landowners while also addressing climate change.
Secretary Vilsack expressed his excitement about the progress made by the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities partners over the past year. These initiatives have started enrolling farmers and landowners and have shown tremendous promise for the future of American agriculture and the environment. The projects will not only create new markets for climate-smart commodities but also help implement climate-smart practices and quantify their climate benefits.
Through the initiative, the USDA is investing over $3.1 billion in 141 projects over a span of up to five years. These projects aim to provide producers with technical and financial support to adopt climate-smart agricultural techniques voluntarily. They will also test new techniques for calculating greenhouse gas benefits and create markets for climate-smart commodities. The inclusion of small and underprivileged producers in each project is a significant aspect, and various stakeholders have shown strong support for this financial opportunity.
This project aligns with the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to strengthen American agriculture's competitiveness, promote wealth in rural areas, and advance greenhouse gas emissions measuring and monitoring in the agriculture and forestry sectors. By investing in climate-smart practices and supporting American producers, the USDA aims to position the country as a global leader in climate-smart agricultural production.
As the projects continue to progress, Secretary Vilsack and the USDA look forward to seeing the long-term benefits and impact of these initiatives on American agriculture, the environment, and rural communities.
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- The inaugural project selection for the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity was made one year ago, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture is commemorating this milestone. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack paid a visit to a farm in Wisconsin with producers, project leaders, and project partners to celebrate the accomplishments so far in setting up these inaugural initiatives. He emphasized how projects from this effort will raise awareness and implement climate-smart production practices, activities, and systems at scale on working lands and with a variety of farmers, ranchers, and private landowners. He also stressed how this effort will promote rural prosperity and aid in the fight against climate change.
- Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture said: “Over the past year, our Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities partners have started to hit the ground running, working to enroll farmers and landowners and stand up their projects that hold tremendous promise for both the future of American agriculture and our environment. These wide-ranging, innovative, and forward-looking efforts will not only jumpstart the creation of new markets for climate-smart commodities, but also help producers and forest landowners of all sizes implement climate-smart practices on their lands and pilot innovative and cost-effective methods of quantifying the climate benefits of those practices. I’m excited to see the work that’s been done so far and look forward to seeing these projects continue to progress – as well as their benefits – over the coming months and years.”
- Through the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities initiative, which aims to expand market opportunities for American commodities produced using climate-smart practices through pilot projects, the USDA is investing more than $3.1 billion in 141 projects. This will position American producers as global leaders in climate-smart agricultural production.
The up to five-year initiatives that have been chosen will:
Give producers technical and financial support so they can voluntarily adopt climate-smart agricultural techniques on working lands.
Test new, affordable MMRV (quantification, monitoring, reporting, and verification) techniques for calculating greenhouse gas benefits.
Create markets for the resulting climate-smart commodities and market them. Small and underprivileged producers must play a significant role in each of the chosen projects. A wide range of stakeholders have shown strong support for the financial opportunity.This project relies on existing Biden-Harris Administration efforts to strengthen American agriculture's competitiveness both domestically and abroad, create wealth that stays in rural areas, and promote a variety of producers and operation types. The Biden-Harris Administration's objective to promote greenhouse gas emissions measuring and monitoring for the agriculture and forestry sectors is also advanced by this endeavor.
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