Deadline: 3-Dec-21
The Southern Integrated Pest Management Center (IPM) has launched its Formerly Enhancement Grants Program to regionally address Global Food Security challenges including invasive species, endangered species, pest resistance, and impacts resulting from regulatory actions.
Goals
The overall goals of the Southern IPM Center are to:
- increase coordination and improve efficiency of IPM research and Extension efforts,
- facilitate collaboration across states and disciplines, and,
- promote further development and adoption of IPM through regional pest management information
- networks, collaborative team building, and broad-based stakeholder participation
Eligible Projects
Projects with a priority listing address critical IPM issues resulting from:
- Changes in management systems
- Pesticide resistance (chemical or GMO)
- Invasive pests
- Loss of management tools
- Environmental changes
Categories & Funding Information
- Seed Projects
- Projects are limited to a maximum of $30,000.
- Successful proposals will have strong potential to initiate, enable, facilitate, and/or catalyze effective solutions to important IPM issues and challenges. These projects should do what the name implies – plant a seed that has good potential to grow into a solution. Examples include, but are not limited to, pilot outreach projects, early research, tool and method development, and collection of baseline data (documenting current practices) for early stage research or outreach projects.
- Capstone Projects
- Projects are limited to a maximum of $30,00
- Successful proposals will build on previous research and development efforts for capstone projects involving outreach, implementation, and/or educational approaches. Examples include, but are not limited to, expanding successful demonstration programs, improving online educational resources, extending model systems, and collecting impact data for long-running projects.
- IPM Working Group Projects
- Working group funding includes up to $10,000 for team building activities and up to $30,000 for output-based activities.
- IPM Working Groups (IPM WG) comprise diverse stakeholders working collaboratively to identify and address IPM priorities for important IPM issues.
Activities
- Team Building Activities: develop and maintain the group itself. Examples include an annual meeting, routine teleconferences, and use of online communications. All of these activities should be directed toward ensuring an active and appropriately diverse stakeholder membership that finds consensus around defining and prioritizing research, development, regulatory, and Extension activities to successfully address the issue at hand.
- Output-Based Activities: are the work that the team does to address the pest management issue at hand, i.e. the research, development and Extension activities. These activities should address the group-identified priorities, and produce outputs such as those described in Seed and Capstone project types, clearly directed at generating the anticipated outcomes.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include private individuals and institutions, faculty and qualified staff of four-year universities, businesses, commodity organizations, and governmental and non-governmental organizations. Projects will be considered regardless of commodity or setting, including but not limited to crops, built environments, natural areas, livestock production, wildlife, forest health, and schools.
- The primary Project Director (PD) must be from within the Southern region as defined by USDA-NIFA, and are as follows: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, the U. S. Virgin Islands, and Virginia.
- While the primary PD must be from within the Southern region, collaboration with individuals outside the region is both permitted and encouraged. The majority of the project funding must also remain in the Southern region, although some funds may go to PDs from other regions if the work includes other states outside of the Southern region.
For more information, visit https://southernipm.org/grants/programs/southern-ipm-grants-2022/