The National Institute of Food and Agriculture is accepting applications for its Crop Protection and Pest Management Grant.
Donor Name: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/06/2026
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is committed to advancing these principles and encourages applicants to actively engage farmers, ranchers, and foresters when applying for funding opportunities to ensure relevancy and adherence to them. NIFA also encourages agricultural leaders to engage in the peer review panel process to ensure American producers are better served through research, education, and extension activities. Projects submitted under this NOFO should align with USDA Secretary’s Memorandum Directive on Departmental Research and Development Priorities:
- Increasing Profitability of Farmers and Ranchers
- Expanding Markets and Creating New Uses of U.S. Agricultural Products
- Protecting the Integrity of American Agriculture from Invasive Species
- Promoting Soil Health to Regenerate Long-Term Productivity of Land
- Improving Human Health through Precision Nutrition and Food Quality
The purpose of the CPPM program is to provide funding for integrated, multifunctional agricultural research, Extension, and education activities. The goals and objectives of CPPM are to address high-priority issues related to pests, including insects, nematodes, pathogens, weeds, and other pests, and their management using IPM approaches at the state, regional, and national levels. The CPPM program supports projects that will ensure sufficient food production increase producer profitability, and respond effectively to other pest management challenges with comprehensive IPM approaches. Priority is given to proposals that address management of invasive species. The CPPM program also addresses IPM challenges for existing pest concerns that can be addressed more effectively with new and emerging technologies. The outcomes of the CPPM program are IPM practices and strategies needed to maintain agricultural profitability.
In FY 2026, applications to the ARDP program area must address: ARDP Research Projects – either of the following priorities:
- Development of individual tools and tactics essential for pest management systems (e.g., biocontrol, cultural/physical/mechanical control, host plant resistance, particularly novel uses of chemicals, monitoring methods, or decision support, etc.).
- Advanced understanding of how interactions among tactics alter the effectiveness of pest management within agricultural ecosystems. ARDP Integrated Projects – one or more of the following Extension priorities in addition to one of the above Research priorities:
Project Priorities
- Development and Adoption of IPM
- Enhance development and adoption of regional tailored IPM solutions and strategically promote national outcomes for priority pest management issues.
- Promote the overarching National IPM Roadmap goals.
- Intra- and Inter-Regional IPM Collaboration and Cooperation
- Enhance intra- and inter-regional IPM collaboration and cooperation to ensure efficient use of resources to achieve IPM outcomes identified by the CPPM program.
- Support the development and implementation of IPM on regional and national priorities by facilitating collaboration across states, disciplines, research and Extension communities, commodities, and settings.
- Increase coordination of IPM research, education and Extension efforts and respond to critical, high-priority IPM needs by serving as regional focal points for core regional IPM support services, regional pest management information networks, collaborative team building, and broad-based stakeholder participation.
- Maintain coordination with the respective Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Director and the Regional Extension Association Director.
- Engage fully with the appropriate regional Hatch Multistate IPM Education/Extension and Research Activities and other appropriate IPM-related Hatch Multistate Research Committees to facilitate and obtain regional priority IPM outcomes.
- Coordinate actively with and provide assistance to the Project Directors (PDs) within the region who receive awards from the other two CPPM program areas (ARDP and EIP).
- Engage with and support the respective regional IR-4 program, the National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN), government agencies to further mutual IPM goals.
- Support IPM projects that may require inter- or inter-regional collaborations.
- IPM Information Networks
- Establish and maintain multi-state information networks.
- Engage with Extension IPM programs and other IPM-related programs and experts operating at the national, regional, state, and local levels.
- Develop the capacity through the IPM information network to review science and regulatory documents related to IPM and to share current pest management information with pest managers and other stakeholders.
- IPM Partnerships
- Build partnerships to address IPM challenges and opportunities.
- Establish broad-based stakeholder advisory and steering committees to provide an opportunity for research and Extension experts, IPM practitioners, and other stakeholders to identify and prioritize pest management needs, challenges, and opportunities in the respective region.
- Maintain a website listing of current, regional IPM priorities obtained from IPM stakeholders and, as appropriate, engage stakeholders in a regional process to identify and prioritize IPM needs, focus center resources and programs on the identified priorities, and share regional IPM priorities with NIFA annually.
- Use input from a wide variety of sources in the IPM needs prioritization process such as research and Extension faculty including the state Extension IPM coordinators; multistate research and Extension committees that address pest management issues; members of IPM-related Extension’s Networks, commodity associations and other groups representing end-users; and public interest groups.
- Work in partnership with appropriate government agencies, private sector organizations, and academic institutions on opportunities for interagency cooperation and shared funding of priority projects.
- Evaluation of IPM Implementation
- Incorporate assessment and evaluation into IPM center programs to document the outcomes and impacts of IPM research and extension efforts throughout its region, including the aggregation and synthesis of existing information and the generation of new information.
- Review and evaluate impacts of IPM implementation.
- Collaborate with the other regional IPM centers to standardize evaluation metrics.
- Communicate outcomes, impacts, and success stories to key stakeholders, funding organizations, and policy makers.
Funding Information
- Applied Research and Development Program
- Minimum Award Amount: $300,000
- Maximum Award Amount: $300,000
- Regional Coordination Program
- Minimum Award Amount: $1,000,000 per year
- Maximum Award Amount: $1,150,000 per year
Grant Period
- Applied Research and Development Program: 24-36 Months
- Regional Coordination Program: 44 Months
Eligibility Criteria
Applications may only be submitted by colleges and universities (as defined by Section 1404 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 as amended, Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and universities, and 1994 Institutions. Award recipients may subcontract to organizations not eligible to apply provided such organizations are necessary for the conduct of the project, subject to NIFA approval.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
