Deadline: 9-Mar-22
The Foundation for food & Agricultural Research (FFAR) has launched Seeding Solutions Grants Program, they support pioneering science to provide everyone access to affordable, nutritious food grown on thriving farms. (FFAR), pronounced, builds public-private partnerships to support bold science. Their research, co-created with the agriculture community, fills critical research gaps .They also invest in the future scientific workforce.
The objective of AgMission is to support research, innovation and data systems to advance knowledge of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices and increase their adoption. CSA refers to practices that enhance resiliency and adaptation of agricultural lands and production systems as well as practices that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and/or increase soil carbon.
Challenges Areas
- Soil Health
- The Soil Health Challenge Area aims to increase soil health by building knowledge, fueling innovation, and enabling adoption of innovative practices. Foundation for food & Agricultural Research (FFAR) believes that strategic soil health research is essential to increasing farmer and rancher productivity and profitability.
- Sustainable Water Management
- The Sustainable Water Management Challenge Area aims to enhance and protect an adequate supply of healthy natural waters to sustain long-term agricultural production and human/environmental health under shifting climate conditions. FFAR seeks to fund cross-disciplinary research that directly informs decisions related to sustainable water management in agricultural production, fostering broad-scale adoption of advanced management practices.
- Next Generation Crops
- Foundation for food & Agricultural Research (FFAR) supports the advancement of novel, nutritious, profitable and resilient on-farm crops. There is a strong emphasis on increasing crop diversity and use of new technologies to benefit consumers, producers and the environment.
- They also prioritize advanced breeding methods and development of biotic and abiotic stress tolerance for crops grown in organic and conventional cropping systems with the aim of providing increased farmer profitability and environmental resilience.
- Advanced Animal Systems
- The Advanced Animal Systems Challenge Area aims to support innovations and collaborative partnerships that improve animal health, welfare and productivity, antibiotic stewardship and the environment.
- Urban Food Systems
- The Urban Food Systems Challenge Area explores areas of innovation with the potential to transform urban food systems to improve food and nutritional security, human health outcomes, economic opportunities, and food system resiliency. FFAR supports innovative, systems-level approaches aimed at creating healthy and equitable food systems. Emphasis is placed on trans disciplinary approaches that take into account the connections between urban food systems and the urban environment, in addition to the connections between rural and urban communities to achieve this goal.
- Health-Agriculture Nexus
- The Health-Agriculture Nexus Challenge Area supports innovative, systems level approaches (both technological and non-technological) aimed at reducing food and nutritional insecurity and improving human health in the United States and around the globe.
Funding information
- FFAR awards approximately 10 grants ranging between $300,000 to $1 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- They welcome applications from all domestic and international higher education institutions, non-profit and for-profit organizations and US government-affiliated research agencies.
- Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) may apply to the Seeding Solutions program through their home institution or organization.
For more information, visit https://foundationfar.org/grants-funding/