Event contact
Dr. LaKisha Odom
Lodom@foundationfar.org
While fertilizers are essential for healthy, high-yielding crops, excess fertilizer can result in harmful environmental consequences. Farmers need improved fertilizer technologies and guidance to improve soil and plant health, crop productivity and environmental resilience.
FFAR and OCP North America (OCPNA), a subsidiary of the global plant-nutrition company OCP Group, created the FFAR-OCP Disruptive Fertilizer Technology Fellowship (FFAR-OCP Fellowship) to provide early-career scientists with opportunities to advance research on precision fertilizer application methods, nutrient recommendation methods and guidance on land applications of animal waste to customize and enhance fertilizer efficiency. Ultimately, the FFAR-OCP Fellowship intends to deliver new innovations in fertilizer products that are safe, effective, commercially scalable and easily understood by farmers.
This webinar featured a panel including the three inaugural 2022 FFAR-OCP Fellows discussing their research and emerging breakthroughs in innovative fertilizer technologies:
In addition, FFAR introduced the winners of the 2023 FFAR-OCP Fellowship and discuss future fellowship opportunities.
2023 Fellows:
- Dr. Fabian Beeckman, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
- Dr. Benjamin Wang, Stanford University