Awarded Grants
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AgMission™ Funds Global Producers’ Consultation to Improve Climate-Smart Agriculture Adoption

Expanding OpTIS, a remote sensing tool to accelerate soil health and climate-smart practices

The Ohio State University Study Examines Soil Organic Carbon-Enhancing Practices

AgMission CIAT Grant Evaluates the Risk of Climate Disruption for Key Crops across Geographies

Mapping Trees in Future Climates: Integrating Knowledge, Data and Tools to Enhance Agroforestry Adoption for Climate Resilience

Kansas State University Provides Data on Nitrogen Management Practices in the Great Plains

AgMission/Precision Conservation Management MOU

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AgMission™ Grant Aims to Improve Climate-Smart Farming Adoption

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $150,000

Total award amount   $400,000

Location   Federal Way, WA

Program   AgMission

Matching Funders   Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and World Vision

Climate change is threatening agriculture globally, and small-scale farmers in low- and middle-income countries are particularly vulnerable. To strengthen their resilience, FFAR and Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) awarded a $300,000 competitive grant to World Vision through AgMission, an initiative co-created by FFAR and the World Farmers’ Organisation to unlock agriculture’s potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This joint investment will enable in-depth examination of small-scale farmer adoption of climate-smart agriculture in India, Kenya and Bangladesh.

Expanding OpTIS, a remote sensing tool to accelerate soil health and climate-smart practices

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $1,784,805

Total award amount   $3,592,805

Location   Arlington, VA

Program   AgMission

Matching Funders   The Nature Conservancy, Conservation Tillage Information Center and Regrow Ag

Grantee Institution   The Nature Conservancy

AgMission awarded The Nature Conservancy a $1,784,805 grant to expand the scale and scope of the Operational Tillage Information System (OpTIS). OpTIS is a remote sensing tool that gives the conservation and agriculture communities vital data to help farmers accelerate soil health and climate-smart practices.

AgMission CIAT Grant Evaluates the Risk of Climate Disruption for Key Crops across Geographies

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $100,000

Total award amount   $200,000

Location   Palmira, Colombia

Program   AgMission

Matching Funders   PepsiCo

Extreme events are increasing in frequency and severity and have impacted key crops in this region, repeatedly demonstrating how vulnerable local agriculture is to droughts, floods heatwaves and other unpredictable weather. CIAT researchers are identifying and assessing the likelihood of future climate risks and extreme events, and their potential impacts on yields and quality of key crops in North America, South Africa, Egypt and Brazil.

Ohio State University Study Examines Soil Organic Carbon-Enhancing Practices

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $5,000,000

Total award amount   $15,000,000

Location   Columbus, OH

Program   AgMission

Matching Funders   Bayer U.S. – Crop Science, Corteva, Cotton Incorporated, FONTAGRO, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Kansas Corn, Kansas State University, McDonald’s Corporation, Michigan State University, Microsoft, National Sorghum Producers, The Nature Conservancy, Ohio Corn & Wheat, Ohio Soybean Council, Ohio State University, PepsiCo, Sandia National Laboratories, United Sorghum Checkoff, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Utah Department of Agriculture & Food, Utah State University

Carbon farming optimizes carbon capture by implementing practices that are known to improve the rate at which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and stored in plant material or soil organic matter. To fill research gaps in soil sequestration practices, Ohio State University researchers are studying the potential of soil management practices to mitigate climate change.

Mapping Trees in Future Climates: Integrating Knowledge, Data and Tools to Enhance Agroforestry Adoption for Climate Resilience

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $300,000

Total award amount   $642,085

Location   Madison, WI

Program   AgMission

Matching Funders   Canopy Farm Management, Great Lakes Protection Fund, Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust, Savanna Institute and University-Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Grantee Institution   Savanna Institute

The Savanna Institute is producing high-resolution future climate suitability maps across the Midwestern U.S. that can be incorporated into tools to inform climate-smart agroforestry adoption.

Kansas State University Provides Data on Nitrogen Management Practices in the Great Plains

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $872,560

Total award amount   $1,745,125

Location   Manhattan, KS

Matching Funders   Kansas Fertilizer Research Fund, Kansas State University and the United Sorghum Checkoff Program

Grantee Institution   Kansas State University

Limited data is available that evaluates nitrogen losses and provides producers with the information needed to reduce nitrogen fertilizer application rates for water-limited crops by using climate-smart agriculture practices. Kansas State University researchers are examining the key components of the nitrogen cycle in water-limited grain sorghum production under various climate-smart agriculture practices.

AgMission/Precision Conservation Management MOU

Year Awarded  2021

FFAR award amount   $79,966

Total award amount   $159,933

Location   Bloomington, IL

Program   AgMission

Matching Funders   PepsiCo

Through AgMission, FFAR entered in MOU with PCM to implement the Sustainable Farming Program improvement plan focused on regenerative agriculture in Gothenburg, Nebraska.