Sec. 4. Urban agriculture outreach program
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The Secretary shall establish an urban agriculture outreach program under which the Secretary shall award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities to support outreach activities for any of the following: Infrastructure, including production and distribution systems, to support urban agriculture. Land acquisition and land conversion to support urban agriculture, including in and around a brownfield, vacant lot, or other underutilized tract of land. Education and training to enhance urban agriculture.
Technical and financial assistance to farmers or ranchers in urban areas for— the aggregation of the farmer’s or rancher’s products and supplies for purposes of transportation to market; and managing urban agriculture farm operations. Other activities that support urban agriculture, as determined by the Secretary. The term of a grant awarded under this section shall be not less than one year. A grant awarded under this section may be renewed at the discretion of the Secretary.
In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary shall give a preference to an eligible entity seeking a grant for outreach activities to be carried out in a historically underserved community. In this section: The term eligible entity means— a community organization; a nonprofit organization; a historically underserved community; a municipality; a local educational agency (as defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 )); an institution of higher education (as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
( 20 U.S.C. 1001(a) ); or any other entity as determined appropriate by the Secretary. The term historically underserved farmers or ranchers means— beginning farmers or ranchers; limited resource beginning farmers or ranchers (as defined by the Secretary); socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers (as such term is defined in section 2501(e) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 ( 7 U.S.C. 2279(e) ); and farmers or ranchers who engage in urban agriculture.
The term historically underserved community means a community— comprised of vulnerable populations, such as historically underserved farmers or ranchers, the economically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minorities, the uninsured, low-income children, the elderly, the homeless, and individuals with chronic health conditions, including severe mental illness; with a high rate of obesity and obesity-related disease; or with few or no grocery stores or other retail food establishments.
The term underutilized tract of land means a tract of land that is not utilized fully, including a tract of land— that is undeveloped, or where only a percentage of the land is developed; in the case of public land, land with low or decreasing public use; or with unused recreation facilities. The term vacant lot means a tract of land without buildings. There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year thereafter.
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