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FFAR Fellows Program 2020 Cohort

Year Awarded  2020

Matching Funders   North Carolina State University

A unique three-year fellowship that prepares up to 48 graduate students to be the next generation of food and agriculture scientists by using an interdisciplinary approach to career readiness. Fellows work with university and industry representatives, as well as their peers, to conduct urgent research and engage in professional development.

FFAR Funds Novel Supply-Demand Technology, Connecting Institutional Buyers to Specialty Crop Farmers

Year Awarded  2020

FFAR award amount   $2,000,000

Total award amount   $4,000,000

Location   Memphis, TN

Matching Funders   AgLaunch, Mississippi State University, The Seam, Tennessee State University, Wallace Center at Winrock International, Tennessee Department of Agriculture

Grantee Institution   AgLaunch

The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated that greater tools are needed to ensure flexibility in the food supply chain during major crises to ensure both economic security for farmers and food security for consumers. The Open Market Consortium (OMC)is developing and piloting an open-source, public-access blockchain system to connect small and mid-size farmers to institutional buyers and minimize supply disruptions. OMC, led by AgLaunch Initiative, includes founding members Mississippi State University, The Seam, Tennessee State University and the Wallace Center at Winrock International.

FFAR Funds Dashboards to Track Food Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

Year Awarded  2020

FFAR award amount   $221,743

Total award amount   $506,743

Location   West Lafayette, IN

Matching Funders   Microsoft

Grantee Institution   Purdue University

Food processing disruptions caused by COVID-19 outbreaks highlight the need for better real-time monitoring and reporting of the status of the food supply chain to prevent or mitigate food crises. Purdue University researchers are creating a series of open-access online dashboards that help quantify and illustrate potential disruptions to the food supply chain. The dashboards will focus on COVID-19 but have the flexibility to be tailored to suit future market disruptions.

Kirchner Food Fellowship 2020-21 Cohort

Year Awarded  2020

Location   Birmingham, AL & Washington, D.C.

Matching Funders   Kirchner Impact Foundation and the Kirchner Group

The Kirchner Fellowship HBCU cohort is part of a $1 million five-year collaboration between the Kirchner Impact Foundation and the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research to increase diversity within the venture capital industry by training HBCU students to become agriculture technology venture capitalists. Kirchner HBCU fellows invest capital in early-stage food and agriculture companies applying ground-breaking technologies to provide sustainable solutions to address global food challenges.

USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation Sponsors $200,000 for FFAR-Funded Research that Benefits the Poultry Industry

Zachary B. Lippman Awarded the 2020 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences

FFAR Accepts Pre-Proposals for Seeding Solutions 2020

New USB-FFAR Partnership Boosts Protein in Soybeans

International Consortium for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Agriculture (ICASA) Issues Call for Research Concepts

FFAR Seeks Nominations for 2020 New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award