Deadline: 22-Feb-22
The Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has announced a Call for Proposals for the Graduate Student Grants in Sustainable Agriculture for 2022.
Funded projects must contain both research and outreach components on a sustainable agriculture topic. Outreach activities may include on-farm/ranch demonstrations, farmer-to-farmer educational activities, and other approaches to assist producer adoption of sustainable agricultural practices.
The goal of this program is to achieve results that can be communicated to producers and agricultural professionals; sustain and improve the environmental quality and natural resource base on which agriculture depends; improve the profitability of farmers/ranchers and associated agricultural businesses; and enhance the quality of life for farmers/ranchers in local communities.
The SARE grant program mission is to support innovations that improve profitability, stewardship and quality of life in American agriculture by investing in groundbreaking research and education. To achieve that, Western SARE believes that the programs must include the involvement of agricultural producers from project inception to finish, and therefore they require producer involvement in the planning, design, implementation, and educational outreach of any funded projects.
Funding Information
Western SARE Graduate Student Grants provide a maximum of $30,000 (including Indirect Cost) for up to two years. Because universities typically do not allow students to manage institutional grant awards, the student major professor/advisor will be the Principal Investigator (PI) and the graduate student the applicant Funds are awarded to the applicant’s university, with the funds to be dedicated to the student’s graduate research project.
Eligible Projects
WSARE requires that agricultural producers be involved from inception to finish in the planning, design, implementation, and educational outreach of any WSARE-funded project Each of the WSARE-funded grant programs, has slightly different requirements for the composition of the project team and eligible applicant Assemble your project team accordingly, keeping in mind the inherent interdisciplinary nature of sustainable agriculture.
- Farmer/Rancher Grants: The project team must be a minimum of two (2) people and must include: A Producer (Principal Investigator) and a Technical Advisor. The Technical Advisor must be independent of the Producer.
- Professional + Producer Grants: The project team must be a minimum of six (6) people and must include: An Agricultural Professional (Principal Investigator) and at least five (5) Producers. One of the producers must be identified as the Producer Advisor Representative.
- Research and Education Grants: The project team must be a minimum of five (5) people and must include: A Researcher (PI or Co-PI), an Outreach Representative (PI or Co-PI), and at least three
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- Graduate Student Grants: The project team must be a minimum of three (Apeorile and to activat must include: A Graduate Student (Applicant), a Researcher (Principal Investigator and typically the applicant’s major professor) and at least one (1) Producer.
Eligible Countries
Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only graduate students (Master or Ph.D.) enrolled at accredited colleges or universities in the Western region are eligible to apply. At the time of proposal submission, the student must be considered full-time according to their institution’s requirements.
- The research must be conducted in the Western region. The student is the recipient of the grant, and they may receive only one Western SAKE Graduate Student Grant award during their graduate studies. Proposals must be written by the student who will coordinate and conduct the project with the guidance of their major professor/advisor and at least one agricultural producer.
- Multiple submissions are accepted but only one application (from any one individual applicant) can be awarded funding in any of the Western SARE competitive programs in one grant budget cycle.
- An exception to this rule, are proposals submitted to the Graduate Student program, where more than one project can be awarded to a PI who acts as main advisor of the graduate student(s).
- Additionally, obtaining Graduate Student awards does not exclude the PI to be awarded in other WSARE Research and Education or Professional Development grant programs for the same budget cycle.
For more information, visit https://western.sare.org/grants/graduate-student-research-and-education/