Grants to USA, Canada, and International Nonprofits, For-Pro

Grants to USA, Canada, and International Nonprofits, For-Profits, IHEs, and US Government Agencies to Assist Farmers with Climate Resiliency

AgMission: Regenerative Agriculture for Climate Resilient Farms and Value Chains

GrantWatch ID# 207610

Agency: Foundation

Funding Source

FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

Geographic Focus

All USA
USA Territories: American Samoa (USA); Guam (USA); Puerto Rico (USA); Virgin Islands (USA); Northern Mariana Islands (USA);
USA Compact Free Associations:The Federated States of Micronesia (USA) Marshall Islands (USA) Republic of Palau (USA)
Canada:Alberta; British Columbia; Manitoba; New Brunswick; Newfoundland and Labrador; Northwest Territories; Nova Scotia; Nunavut; Ontario; Prince Edward Island; Quebec; Saskatchewan; Yukon;
International, Israel and Canada.

Important Dates

LOI Date: 02/22/23
Deadline: 05/17/23 5:00 PM ET Save

Grant Description

Grants to USA, Canada, and International nonprofit and for-profit organizations, IHEs, and US government-affiliated research agencies to assist farmers in eligible regions in making their crops more resilient to climate change. Applicants are required to submit a pre-application prior to a full grant application. Funding is intended to improve climate resiliency of farms and food value chains in North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australia.

The AgMission initiative is launching a funding opportunity for action research to accelerate the adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and improve climate resiliency of farms and food value chains in North America, Europe, South Africa and Australia. FFAR invites applications to develop paired research and practice implementation projects that identify opportunities for increased adoption of climate resilient practices and document the impact on key physical and economic variables at the farm level. Specifically, this opportunity seeks to identify practices that promote climate resilience and align with regenerative agriculture goals, including building soil health and fertility, reducing greenhouse gas emissions or increasing soil organic carbon. Additional regenerative co-benefits of practice adoption may include reducing fertilizer loss to watersheds and increasing biodiversity on working lands.

AgMission seeks to award meritorious applications that include both increased implementation of CSA practices on working farms and contribute to scientific understanding of the impact of climate resilience in agricultural production for future food security.

Successful projects will:

Collaborate with farmers and agricultural value chain stakeholders in the region of interest and incorporate stakeholder perspectives, questions and concerns in the project design.
Emphasize close collaboration between researchers and implementor organizations with a track record of direct engagement with farmers to ensure the project generates in-field impact as well as valid research.
Test strategies and make recommendations on how to effectively increase adoption of regenerative practices with a community of agricultural producers.
Include monitoring and/or estimation of the GHG impact from the adoption of climate resilient practices and demonstrate increased adoption of CSA practices across the region of study.
Evaluate the impact of the selected CSA practices on crop yield, crop quality and future security of food supply from the study region.
Document both the economic and environmental impact of the practices on farm level resiliency.

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Additional Eligibility Criteria

AgMission welcomes applications from domestic and international project implementers, higher education institutions, non-profit and for-profit organizations, and US government-affiliated research agencies. Collaborative multi-institution applications are encouraged.

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 program through their home institution or organization.

Pre-Proposal Conference

AgMission Climate-Smart Agriculture Adoption RFA Informational Webinar
January 26, 2023
10:00 am - EST
Virtual

For additional information, see: https://foundationfar.org/events/agmission-climate-smart-agriculture-adoption-rfa-informational-webinar/

Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4rQITXjzQpy6C2yZHMrA_A

Pre-Application Information

Key Dates:
- Pre-Application Open: January 18, 2023 at 12:00pm ET
- Pre-Applications Due: February 22, 2023 by 5:00pm ET
NOTE: An approved pre-application with an invitation to submit a full application is required for submission.
- Full Application Invitation: March 22, 2023
- Full Applications Due: May 17 by 5:00 PM ET
- Award Notification: Summer 2023
- Anticipated Project Start Date: Fall 2023

Matching Funds are not required for this program but forming collaborative partnerships that provide additional funding/match is encouraged. These partners may include but are not limited to the private sector, non-profits, commodity and trade groups, state governments and others that do not traditionally work in agriculture.

Additional Funding Information

Estimated Total Program Funding:

$6,000,000

Estimated Size of Grant

Individual projects not to exceed $1.5 million over three years.

Term of Contract

- Project Duration: 3 years
- Anticipated Project Start Date: Fall 2023

Contact Information

Application: https://www.grantrequest.com/application.aspx?SA=SNA&FID=35146.&sid=6242

For questions related to the online submission system or this RFA, please contact FFAR’s Grant Management team at grants@foundationfar.org.

For programmatic questions, please contact Allison Thomson, Scientific Program Director at athomson@foundationfar.org or Olivia Shoemaker, Scientific Program Assistant for AgMission at oshoemaker@foundationfar.org.

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