Grants Archive - Page 3 of 30 - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is highlighting food system deficiencies. Producers are struggling to reach consumers due to concerns with processing, distribution and demand. We provided supplemental funding to the Michigan State University research team investigating how emergency food programs, including food banks, schools and Meals on Wheels, intersect with the retail sector.

Modeling the Future of Food in Your Neighborhood

FFAR award amount $100,000

Year Awarded 2020

Total award amount $100,000

Location Cleveland, OH

Program Tipping Points

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is highlighting food system deficiencies. Producers are struggling to reach consumers due to concerns with processing, distribution and demand. We provided supplemental funding to the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine research team to model the effects of COVID-19 in neighborhoods with high, medium and low food security before March 2020. Their findings will be used to tailor food system solutions to diverse neighborhood contexts.

Environmental and Nutritional Benefits of Food Recovery and Redistribution: A Pilot Assessment in New York’s Capital Region

FFAR award amount $99,987

Year Awarded 2020

Total award amount $99,987

Location Albany, NY

Program Tipping Points

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is highlighting food system deficiencies. Producers are struggling to reach consumers due to concerns with processing, distribution and demand. We provided supplemental funding to the University at Albany research team to study how COVID-19 is impacting food access in New York’s Capital Region. This research is focusing on how the fresh produce recovery and redistribution arm of the Capital Region food system is responding to changes resulting from COVID-19.

Evaluating Food Access Strategies in Austin To Improve Healthy Food Consumption and Food Security

FFAR award amount $83,356

Year Awarded 2020

Total award amount $83,356

Location Austin, TX

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is highlighting food system deficiencies. Producers are struggling to reach consumers due to concerns with processing, distribution and demand. We provided supplemental funding to FRESH Austin to examine the impact of the pandemic on access to fresh, nutritious food in the Austin area.

Conservation of an Endophytic Insect-pathogenic Fungus for Plant Protection in Organic Cropping Systems.

FFAR award amount $19,468

Year Awarded 2020

Total award amount $19,468

Location State College, PA

Matching Funders Organic Farming Research Foundation

Weeds, pests and diseases often devastate soil health, impact environmental health and threaten global food security. In partnership with the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF), we awarded a grant to Pennsylvania State University researchers examine how to promote and conserve the beneficial soil fungus, Metarhizium robertsii. This fungus can increase plant growth and tolerance to environmental stresses, which are expected to increase with climate change.

Cover Crops for Soil Health: Demonstration of On-Farm Trial

FFAR award amount $19,620

Year Awarded 2020

Total award amount $19,620

Location Rio Grande, TX

Matching Funders Organic Farming Research Foundation

Weeds, pests and diseases often devastate soil health, impact environmental health and threaten global food security. In partnership with the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF), we awarded a grant to the University of Texas at Rio Grande to evaluate whether cover crops can restore soil health, suppress weeds and reduce pest populations. This research provides farmers with information on cover crop selection and management that improves the long-term sustainability of organic agriculture systems.

Biosolarization: Harnessing the Sun and Organic Matterfor Weed Control

FFAR award amount $17,337

Year Awarded 2020

Total award amount $17,337

Location Sacramento Valley, CA

Matching Funders Organic Farming Research Foundation

Weeds, pests and diseases devastate soil health, impact environmental health and threaten global food security. In partnership with the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF), we awarded a grant to The National Center for Appropriate Technology to measuring the efficacy of biosolarization—an innovative weed control that combines soil solarization (trapping solar radiation under a plastic tarp) with biofumigation (using biologically-active plant substances to suppress soil-borne pests and pathogens) – to prove that biosolarization provides weed control in a better and more timely manner.

Accelerated Development of Crops of the Future

FFAR award amount $748,549

Year Awarded 2020

Total award amount $1,497,098

Location Ames, IA

Matching Funders Iowa State University, KWS SAAT SE & Co, Beck’s Superior Hybrids, BASF, SAATEN-UNION BIOTEC and RAGT

Program Seeding Solutions

On average, it takes farmers ten years to produce a new crop. With an increasing global population, there is high demand for more crops sooner. Iowa State University researchers are developing breeding methods that accelerate plant breeding for multiple crop species. These breeding techniques deliver improved crop varieties – with greater yields – into the hands of farmers sooner.

Biological Control of Cattle Fever Ticks in South Texas

FFAR award amount $25,000

Year Awarded 2020

Total award amount $50,000

Location San Antonio, TX

Matching Funders Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation

Program Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research

In addition to market volatility threats from COVID-19, Texas cattle ranchers are also battling the southern cattle fever tick (Rhipicephalus microplus), a tick carried pathogen that causes deadly cattle fever for which there is no vaccine or treatment. USDA researchers are developing biological control technologies to prevent and contain this parasite.

Noninvasive Wellness Monitoring of Broiler Growout Using Continuous Audio Analytics

FFAR award amount $180,000

Year Awarded 2020

Total award amount $445,000

Location United Kingdom

Matching Funders Tyson Foods, Fielddale Farms, Amazon

Program SMART Broiler

Existing methods for assessing animal welfare rely on human observation and subjective scoring which can be inaccurate and time consuming. AudioT researchers are developing audio-based monitoring tools that analyze bird vocalizations and alert farmers to broiler welfare and behavior concerns. This grant was awarded through our SMART Broiler research initiative.

Awarded GrantsBelow is a listing of our awarded grants that tackle big food and agriculture challenges.

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FFAR Grant Enhances Dairy Industry Sustainability

FFAR Awards $2 Million Grant to Improve Sustainability in Corn Production

Accelerating Breeding Technology to Develop New Crops

FFAR and OFRF Renew Partnership to Improve Soil Health Research

SKY HIGH Consortium Agreement

SKY HIGH

Irrigation Innovation Consortium Funds Seven Research Projects

FFAR Awards Cornell University a Grant to Treat Udder Infection in Dairy Cattle

ICASA Awards Grants to Develop Animal-Health Monitoring and Diagnostic Technologies

FFAR Grant to Develop Vaccine for Tilapia Lake Virus

OFRF and FFAR Fund Research to Enhance Organic Potato Nutrition

PIP Lettuce Project

Precision Bred Adaptation of Elite Taurine Breeds of Beef and Dairy Cattle

Genome Editing Wheat for Durable and Sustainable Disease Resistance

Finding the Proper Levers: Identifying Leverage Points for Tranformation in Urban Food Systems Through Participatory Modeling

Modeling the Future of Food in Your Neighborhood

Environmental and Nutritional Benefits of Food Recovery and Redistribution: A Pilot Assessment in New York’s Capital Region

Evaluating Food Access Strategies in Austin To Improve Healthy Food Consumption and Food Security

Conservation of an Endophytic Insect-pathogenic Fungus for Plant Protection in Organic Cropping Systems.

Cover Crops for Soil Health: Demonstration of On-Farm Trial

Biosolarization: Harnessing the Sun and Organic Matterfor Weed Control

Accelerated Development of Crops of the Future

Biological Control of Cattle Fever Ticks in South Texas

Noninvasive Wellness Monitoring of Broiler Growout Using Continuous Audio Analytics

Development of an Automated Broiler Gait Score and Flock Activity Assessment System

Smart Monitoring of Broiler Welfare using Camera Technology and Machine Learning

Innovative On-Farm Broiler Welfare Assessment Using Imaging Techniques

Flockfocus – Developing Automated Surveillance Tools to Safeguard Chicken Welfare

OpticFlock: Automated Monitoring of Broiler Chicken Behavior That Prioritizes Animal Welfare

Environmental Enrichment Effects on Pig Welfare

National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food & Agriculture Research

Integrating Community and Modeling Efforts to Evaluate Impacts and Tradeoffs of Food System Interventions 2020

Open Market Consortium: Creating Economic Opportunities for Small and Mid-size Growers

FFAR Grant Examines Carbon Farming Effect on Soil Health

FFAR Grant Addressing Surface and Groundwater Pollution on Farms

FFAR Awards Grant to Reduce Water Waste in Crop Irrigation

Field-deployable biosensors for managing animal health

An Integrative Approach to Biofortification of Staple Crops

Digging deeper: Removing the barriers to soil compaction mitigation

Uncovering the Genetic Architecture of Inducible Chemical Defenses in Crop and Wild Sunflower for the Sustainable Control of Pests and Pathogens

Engineering crops for cultivation in controlled environments

Developing Novel Strategies for Improved Control and Sustainability of Grapevine Bunch Rot Management

Next-generation tools and strategies for genetic improvement of farmed oysters

Harnessing the soil microbiome to increase soil health and plant productivity

2020 FFAR Vet Fellows Program

2020 FFAR Vet Fellows Program

2020 FFAR Vet Fellows Program

2020 FFAR Vet Fellows Program

2020 FFAR Vet Fellows Program

2020 FFAR Vet Fellows Program

2020 FFAR Vet Fellows Program

2020 FFAR Vet Fellows Program

2020 FFAR Vet Fellows Program

Determining Environmental and Biological Conditions Influencing Lettuce Discoloration, Yield and Leaf Quality

Application of Homoacetogens from Marsupials for the Production of Volatile Fatty Acids and Rumen Bioaugmentation.

Computational methods to identify elemental accumulation genes

Improving yield characteristics through beneficial microbial selection in plants

Application of Homoacetogens from Marsupials for the Production of Volatile Fatty Acids and Rumen Bioaugmentation.

Improving precise genome editing systems in plants

Optimizing light parameters to increase shoot induction and elongation of transformed plants: initial studies in soybean

Integrating manure and covers crops and their impact on soil health

Identifying urban food system dimensions that foster food security resilience during a post pandemic era

Uncovering mechanistic underpinnings of regenerative farming systems on soil health

Impact of blended and structured refuge management tactics on Helicoverpa zea resistance risk implications for Bt crops

Resistance of Organically Grown Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L). Walp] to Virus Diseases

Connecting Concentrations to Curvature: How Osmotic Pressure Couples to Cell Membrane Function towards Understanding Nanoparticle Transport in Plants

A Multi-Tactic Approach for Minimizing Palmer Amaranth Seedbank Replenishment in Cotton

Characterizing grass development and physiological genetics for improved crop performance

Perennial Crops as Soil Health Agents: Assessing Novel Crops’ Belowground Ecology in Grain-Legume Biculture

Investigating the use of spray induced gene silencing to control Phytophthora infestans, causal agent of late blight

Raman spectroscopy for non-invasive detection of biotic and abiotic stresses in plants

Understanding the Fundamental Mechanical Properties Governing the Flow of Lignocellulosic Biomass Particulates

Awarded Grants
Below is a listing of our awarded grants that tackle big food and agriculture challenges.