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The launch of the Loan Assistance Tool, an online step-by-step guide that provides materials to help an applicant prepare their farm loan application.

Partnerships with trusted technical assistance providers to ensure that underserved producers and communities have the support they need to access USDA programs. For farm programs, this includes improved assistance and capacity for the skills involved in successful farm management, such as business planning, market development, financial knowledge, and others. For rural communities, the strategy is to help communities build the futures they envision, assisting them to navigate and access programs from across the federal government and other providers, secure technical assistance, and develop local capacity. She told the Star at the sidelines of the meeting that they would use the platform to give an update on Kenya’s progress in implementing projects under the nine themes that were resolved in the Dakar meeting.At the conclusion of its final meeting of this year, the Equity Commission, voted on 66 recommendations presented by the Agriculture Subcommittee and Rural Community Economic Development Subcommittee. The recommendations will be included in a full report to be finalized by early next year.

Equity takes a willingness to speak up and find solutions when resources aren’t reaching people who need it most,” said Deputy Secretary Torres Small. “The Equity Commission is doing the hard work of identifying ways USDA can best support farmers, farm workers, and a food system that serves us all. I am honored to work with the Commission and its Agriculture and Rural Community Economic Development Subcommittees to build a legacy at USDA that will benefit people across our country for generations to come.” Hiring the first-ever permanent Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer to lead the department’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) program. Display the sign: Once the sign is printed, you can display it in a prominent location for customers to see. You can also use double-sided tape or another adhesive to attach the sign to a door, window, or other surfaces. The Equity Commission is co-chaired by Ambassador Ertharin Cousin and United Farm Workers President Emeritus Arturo S. Rodríguez. Prior to March 2023, the Commission was co-chaired by former USDA Deputy Secretary Dr. Jewel Bronaugh and Rodríguez. It is comprised of 13 additional members, appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture, who are not USDA employees but who have a shared commitment to ensure USDA is a diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible organization that upholds its commitment to civil rights and effectively advances racial justice and equity. The Equity Commission works in partnership with two subcommittees, one focused on agriculture and a second focused on rural community economic development. The subject matter experts on the subcommittees have been instrumental in developing recommendations on how to optimize USDA programs for the Equity Commission—the formal and official voting body—to consider, refine, adopt and include in the interim and final report.On February 28, 2023, the Commission and its Subcommittee on Agriculture issued an Interim Report (PDF, 1.2 MB) in both English and Spanish (PDF, 1.3 MB) that included 32 wide-ranging recommendations for ways USDA’s headquarters operations, field offices across the country, and its various program areas can make changes to better serve the unique needs of the Department’s many and diverse stakeholders. USDA issued a response to this report (PDF, 642 KB), which, among other comprehensive actions the Department is taking, lays out USDA’s work to build a more just and equitable farm and food system and become an organization that is trusted today and by future generations. USDA touches the lives of all Americans each day in so many positive ways. Under the Biden-Harris Administration, USDA is transforming America’s food system with a greater focus on more resilient local and regional food production, promoting competition and fairer markets for all producers, ensuring access to safe, healthy and nutritious food in all communities, building new markets and streams of income for farmers and producers using climate-smart food and forestry practices, making historic investments in infrastructure and clean energy capabilities in rural America, and committing to equity across the Department by removing systemic barriers and building a workforce more representative of America. To learn more, visit www.usda.gov.