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The Framework: First Nations Development Institute’s (First Nations)Native Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative (NAFSI) invests in Tribalcommunities that have wide ranging approaches to natural resource assetmanagement, including utilizing existing agricultural assets, creating newagricultural assets, or increasing the value of agricultural assets. Most common among the strategies, however, is simply supporting projects that utilize agricultural assets for the fi rst time or which have long been dormant.