Deadline: 3 May 2017
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is seeking proposals to implement a project on “Use of genetic diversity and Evolutionary Plant Breeding for enhanced farmer resilience to climate change, sustainable crop productivity, and nutrition under rainfed conditions” with an aim to enhance the resilience of target low-input poor farmers in the project area through developing EP populations with higher and stable yields under the local farm agronomic and stress conditions, including drought, salinity, pest and diseases.
The overall goal of the project is to sustainably increase crop productivity and enhance the resilience to climate change, biotic and abiotic shocks of farming communities under low-input, rainfed and less favoured production conditions and organic production systems.
Grant Information
The grant amount is USD 3,500,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The recipient can be an inter-governmental organization (including UN agencies and CGIAR centres), a civil society organization (including NGOs ), an academic institution or a private sector entity. be a public or a private sector entity. Government agencies of IFAD Developed Member States and non-Member States are not eligible.
- Each institution can decide to submit alone or jointly with other partner(s); in that case, the lead institution – who will enter into a legal agreement with IFAD – should be clearly identified and roles and responsibilities of the other partners and national implementing agencies be explicitly stated within the submitted proposal.
How to Apply
- Interested institutions must submit a proposal via e-mail at the address given on the website.
- This expression of interest has to include a one-page cover letter, stating the submitting institution(s)’:
- Experience in participatory breeding approaches
- Experience working with NARES and breeders
- Experience with national and international genebanks.
For more information, please visit IFAD Call for Proposals.