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Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Farm and Ranchland Protection Program - Conservation plans are made and easements purchased through State, tribe, or local government agencies to protect topsoil by limiting conversion to nonagricultural uses. Conservation plans must be carried out over the 30 years or more of the easement term. Functions moved to Agricultural Conservation Easements Program under the 2014 Farm Act (PL 113-79).

Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) - Encourages farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that reduce environmental and resource problems. Half of the funds are targeted to livestock production practices. Authorized by the 1996 Farm Act (PL 104-127) and reauthorized under the 2018 Farm Act (PL 115-334).

Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Agricultural Water Enhancement Program - The Agricultural Water Enhancement Program (AWEP) is a voluntary conservation initiative that provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to implement agricultural water enhancement activities on agricultural land for the purposes of conserving surface and ground water and improving water quality. Functions moved to the Regional Conservation Partnerships Program by the 2014 Farm Act (PL 113-79).

Non-Product-Specific AMS: Biomass crop assistance program: Provides financial assistance to producers or entities that deliver eligible biomass material to designated biomass conversion facilities for use as heat, power, biobased products or biofuels. Assistance is for costs of collection, harvest, storage and transportation associated with delivery of eligible materials. Reauthorized under the 2018 Farm Act (P.L. 115-334).

Non-Product-Specific AMS: Rural Energy for America Program (formerly Renewable Energy Program)

Technical and financial assistance under paragraph 3(III) of the Decision: The principal source of U.S. financial assistance and funding for technical assistance for developing countries is the U.S. Department of State. (...)
a. U.S. Department of State assistance to agriculture (Total: USD 786,096,000: includes expenditures on crop production, livestock production, resource management, infrastructure, policies and planning, training and extension, and agribusiness credit). (...)

Technical and financial assistance under paragraph 3(III) of the Decision: The principal source of U.S. financial assistance and funding for technical assistance for developing countries is the U.S. Department of State. (...)
e. Value of food assistance used in development programs (Total: USD688,614,908)
This figure represents the U.S. dollar value of the commodities donated under Title II, Food for Progress and Food for Education food aid programs (...) Typically, the proceeds are used for water management/irrigation programs, farm credit, agricultural infrastructure (...)

1.1.1.1 Biological agents and their products, and organisms and parts thereof containing genetic information: For these purposes, biological agents are defined as viable micro-organisms and their products, prions and other organisms which cause or may cause disease in humans, animals and plants; organisms are defined as any biological entity that is genetically modified or exotic to the country, capable of reproduction or of transferring genetic material. (...) This procedure is in conformity with the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Biological and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction.

1.1.1.2 Species of special significance for biological diversity in the country and endangered species of wild flora and fauna protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): Import permits for all species listed in the Annexes to Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) Resolution No. 160/2011 "Regulations for the control and protection of species of special significance for biological diversity in the country".

1.1.1.3 Ozone depleting substances: Licensing is intended to restrict the quantity of imports through the use of a nationally established maximum quota for each substance, with a view to progressively reducing the substances in question until they are totally eliminated, in compliance with Cuba's obligations as a signatory to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.