Increasing Land, Capital, and 

Market Access Program

American Rescue Plan Act 

Overview

Section 1006 of the Inflation Reduction 

Act, as amended by Section 22007 

of the American Rescue Plan Act 

includes provisions for USDA to 

ensure underserved producers have 

resources, tools, programs, and technical 

support they need to succeed. As part 

of Section 1006, as amended, USDA 

launched the Increasing Land, Capital, 

and Market Access (Increasing Land 

Access) Program to fund cooperative 

agreements or grants for projects that 

help move underserved producers from 

surviving to thriving. The program is 

administered by USDA’s Farm Service 

Agency and will help underserved 

producers by increasing land, capital, 

and market access.

Land access is critical to the success of 

agriculture. Underserved producers have 

not received the amount of specialized 

technical support that would benefit 

the launch, growth, resilience, and 

success of their agricultural enterprises. 

The Increasing Land Access Program 

is intended to address this problem by 

increasing access to farm ownership 

opportunities, increasing access and 

improving results for those with heirs’ 

property or fractionated land, increasing 

access to markets and capital that affect 

the ability to access land, and increasing 

land ownership, land succession, and 

agricultural business planning. 

Who is Eligible?

Funding is available to various 

government entities from local to Tribal, 

not-for-profit educational institutions, 

and non-profit organizations.

The non-profit organizations can

include Community Development 

Financial Institutions (CDFIs), 

foundations, and Tribal financial 

institutions with a 501c3 status. 

Individuals, non-domestic entities, 

and private, for-profit organizations 

are not eligible to apply to this 

funding opportunity.

What projects are being 

considered?

Projects must focus on strengthening 

land access with at least one of the 

following related areas of concern:

• Capital access concerns that 

affect the ability to access land.

• Market access concerns that 

affect the ability to access land.

• A combination of one or more 

of land, capital, and market 

access concerns.

Projects should benefit underserved 

farmers, ranchers, and forest 

landowners, including veterans, 

limited resource producers, beginning 

farmers and ranchers and farmers, 

ranchers, and forest landowners 

living in high poverty areas. Priority 

points will be awarded to projects 

that focus on increasing land access, 

mitigating and preventing land loss, 

providing specialized project design 

and focus to address the challenges 

with land access, innovative ways to 

connect available land to underserved 

producers who have challenges in 

accessing land, or restore lands into 

the hands underserved producers.

How to Apply

The agreements will be for 

up to five years and may 

be local, state, regional, or 

national in scope.

Due to the unique nature 

of land access among 

Tribal communities,

Tribal projects may be

in all scopes. 

Eligible applicants can 

apply through grants.gov.

Eligible entities must 

submit their applications 

by 11:59 p.m. EST on 

November 18, 2022.

Learn More

USDA has a historic 

commitment to ensure 

equity across all of its 

policies and activities. 

To this end, USDA seeks 

to improve access to 

programs and services 

for all stakeholders 

and rural communities, 

especially underserved 

farmers, ranchers and 

forest landowners 

and operators.More 

information is available at: 

www.usda.gov/equity.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender. fsa.usda.gov