FFAR seeks to award approximately ten meritorious applications, prioritizing those projects that emphasize a commitment to cross-sector partnerships.
Donor Name: Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Country: Global
Type of Grant: Award
Deadline: 03/08/2023
Size of the Grant: $10M
Duration: 60 months
Details:
Seeding Solutions encourages the development of unique partnerships that support innovative and transformative research focused on one of their Challenge Areas or AgMission.
To be considered, applications must address and provide solutions to an intractable problem and/or accelerate innovation within FFAR’s Challenge Areas or AgMission.
- Soil Health: Advanced understanding of what soil health is, how it is measured and how to manage and optimize the sustainable delivery of the ecosystem services which soils provide.
- Sustainable Water Management: Interdisciplinary, model–based research to enhance terrestrial water quality and supplies and minimize linked environmental impacts while maximizing crop production through increased adoption of strategically placed and designed agricultural water management practices.
- Next Generation Crops: Advanced breeding methods and development of biotic and abiotic stress tolerance for crops grown in organic and conventional cropping systems to increase farmer profitability and environmental resilience.
- Advanced Animal Systems: Improved animal health, welfare and productivity, antibiotic stewardship, and environmental sustainability. They particularly encourage research with outcomes relevant to multiple species and/or One Health approaches that incorporate transdisciplinary research relevant to animals, humans and the environment.
- Urban Food Systems: Elucidation of connections between urban food systems and the urban environment, in addition to the connections between rural and urban communities to improve food and nutritional security, human health outcomes, economic opportunities, and food system resiliency through transdisciplinary partnerships.
- Health-Agriculture Nexus: Systems–level approaches (both technological and non– technological) aimed at reducing food and nutritional insecurity and improving human health in the United States and worldwide.
- AgMission: Innovative research and integrated data systems to advance knowledge and adoption of Climate–Smart Agriculture practices, focusing on co–design with agricultural stakeholders and understanding enabling conditions for systems–level change.
Funding Information
At FFAR’s discretion, they will award of approximately $10M in grants through the 2023 Seeding Solution program. Individual awards will range from $300K to $1M. All projects must have planned durations ranging between 12 and 60 months.
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.
- The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research welcomes applications from all domestic and international higher education institutions, non–profit and for–profit organizations, and U.S. government–affiliated research agencies. The following principles guide FFAR’s international engagement under this Seeding Solutions RFA:
- The proposal must identify a clear benefit to the U.S. food and agriculture system and a clear pathway to commercialize or deploy the technology or solution in the U.S.
- FFAR will prioritize research that delivers broader benefits across geographies and
- production systems while ensuring mutual benefit for the U.S. and other nations.
- FFAR will not support research that addresses a challenge primarily limited to another country or region outside the U.S. or where the technology or solution is not broadly relevant to the U.S.
For more information, visit FFAR.
