‘Cultivate Africa’s Future- Phase 2’ program is inviting applications from organisations to carry out research projects with the potential to generate high impact and innovative results with particular impact on the food insecure and poor in eligible eastern and southern African countries. Applications must be submitted by March 1, 2018.
Project budgets under this call must be in the range of CA$1 million to CA$3 million. Project duration must not exceed 42 months, including all research activities and final reporting. It is anticipated that projects selected in this call will begin in January, 2019.
The fund will focus on issues under four key research areas aligned to regional priorities as stated in the Malabo declaration:
- Improved productivity and incomes for farmers and communities and decreased post-harvest losses;
- Improved gender equity;
- Nutrition and human health; and
- Climate change and sustainable water management
Eligibility Requirement:
Of special interest is supporting innovative research with the potential for breakthrough results that can be effectively scaled-up and easily adopted by smallholder farmers, food processors, post-harvest handlers, and other value chain actors to improve food and nutrition security and achieve gender equality.
This call is open to applicant organizations that will work in partnership with others to carry out research in one (or more) of the eligible countries: Burundi; Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Rwanda; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; and Zimbabwe.
Applicant organizations must be developing country organizations (national agricultural research systems, universities, government departments, NGOs, regional organizations, and Southern-led international organizations) with legal corporate registration in an eligible country. They may work in partnership with Canadian or Australian organizations, but this is not a requirement.
All projects require a sound environmental impact assessment, the consideration of social and gender issues, and an applicability to smallholder farmers. The projects should address real practical development challenges and research needs of the 10 developing countries.
The main objective of this competitive research fund is to support applied research in areas vital to achieving long-term food security with a focus on improved productivity and incomes for farmers and communities and decreased post-harvest losses; improved gender equity; nutrition and human health; and climate change and sustainable water management.
For further information, please visit: IDRC/CRDI
