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FFAR seeking Applications for Climate Resilience – United States

Increasing the Circularity in Textiles, Plastics and/or Electronics Value Chains

Deadline: 11-Nov-20

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) is seeking applications for Climate Resilience through the Next Generation Crops Challenge Area to support research that addresses the challenge of rising global temperatures by increasing the basal or acquired thermotolerance of crop plants.

FFAR builds unique partnerships to support innovative and actionable science addressing today’s food and agriculture challenges. They are seeking innovative research focused on improving climate resilience in crops to provide the critical solutions necessary to enhance the sustainable production of nutritious food for a growing global population.

In accordance with the above intent, the successful research will be applicable to one or more of the following crop species: maize, rice, sorghum, millet, wheat, sweet potato, cassava, banana, yam, common bean, cowpea, chickpea or groundnut. They will also consider research in other plants, if applicants adequately describe how the proposed research would be transferable to the preferred crops. Potential solutions only applicable to agricultural systems in high-income countries or involving domestication of new crops will not be considered.

FFAR would consider:

Funding Information

Eligibility Criteria

Application Submission Guidelines

  • Only applications submitted through this portal will be considered eligible for evaluation. FFAR will not accept applications submitted by any other medium. There is a two-hour grace period for all deadlines. Applications that are not submitted by the deadline or within the grace period will not be accepted. To be fair to all our applicants, FFAR cannot grant an extension to applicants who missed the deadlines posted in the Key Dates section.

Application Review Process

For more information, visit https://foundationfar.org/climate-resilience-rfa/

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