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

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Iowa State University Organic Agriculture Program (ISU OAP)

Year Awarded  2022

Total award amount   $50,000

Location   Ames, IA 

Matching Funders   The Organic Center

Grantee Institution   Iowa State University Organic Agriculture Program

The Organic Training for Agricultural Professionals Prize supports the expansion of the Iowa State University Organic Agriculture Program (ISU OAP) through train-the-trainer and organic certification workshops, videos and podcasts, and carbon sequestration webinars and field days. ISU OAP has a 25-year history of training farming community groups, farmer leaders and agricultural professionals in organic agronomic practices, certification and farm management.

OATS (Organic Agronomy Training Service)

Year Awarded  2022

Total award amount   $150,000

Location   Champaign, IL

Matching Funders   The Organic Center

Grantee Institution   The Organic Center

The Organic Training for Agricultural Professionals Prize supports OATS (Organic Agronomy Training Service) to increase domestic organic crop production by supporting the development of an organic professional certificate program, a variety of multi-media training tools and an industry-wide assessment to identify future participants and necessary education. OATS is a training program for agricultural professionals working with organic or transitioning farmers in the northern tier of the U.S., fiscally sponsored by the Organic Trade Association.

Performance-Based Financing Models for Sustainable Water Management in the Great Lakes Basin

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $600,000

Total award amount   $1,200,000

Location   Ann Arbor, MI

Program   Seeding Solutions

Matching Funders   Great Lakes Protection Fund

Grantee Institution   University of Michigan

Though fertilizer runoff can cause water pollution, the demand for high crop yields often stymies conservation practices. One possible answer lies with encouraging private financiers to incentivize farm sustainability efforts by identifying the full lending risks associated with fertilizer emissions. Researchers are exploring this potential solution by linking a water quality modeling and monitoring system in the Lake Huron drainage basin to sustainability-based financial products for farmers.

FoodShot Global Challenge #3 Bioactive Foods GroundBreaker Prize (Champaign, Illinois)

Year Awarded  2022

Total award amount   $120,000

Location   Champaign, IL

Program   FoodShot Global Challenge

Matching Funders   FoodShot Global

Grantee Institution   University of Illinois

FoodShot Global’s GroundBreaker Prize recognizes rising scientific stars whose research has identified technological and ecological tools that enable farmers to optimize yields and the long-term health of the land. Dr. Kaiyu Guan, Blue Waters professor at the University of Illinois and president of Habiterre, received $120,000 for his work in Innovating Soil 3.0 to develop a “system of systems” approach that can support farmer decision-making to improve soil health and provide scientifically rigorous MRV (monitoring, reporting and verification) services to ecosystem services markets.

FoodShot Global Challenge #3 Bioactive Foods GroundBreaker Prize (Maryland)

Year Awarded  2022

Total award amount   $240,000

Location   College Park, MD

Program   FoodShot Global Challenge

Matching Funders   FoodShot Global

Grantee Institution   University of Maryland

FoodShot Global’s GroundBreaker Prize recognizes rising scientific stars whose research has identified technological and ecological tools that enable farmers to optimize yields and the long-term health of the land. Dr. Ray Weil, professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Maryland, received $240,000 for his work at the intersection of BioActive Foods, Precision Protein and Innovating Soil to improve human nutrition by addressing low sulfur soils that may cause deficiencies in key amino acids in African countries. Dr. Weil will develop innovative management practices that use Indigenous resources and plant diversity to help soils and agroecosystems provide crops with enough sulfur to increase yields and farmer income, while enhancing the amino acid profiles – and hence the nutritional quality – of the protein in grain legumes such as bean, peanut, cowpea and soybean.

FoodShot Global Challenge #3 Bioactive Foods GroundBreaker Prize (Massachusetts)

Year Awarded  2022

Total award amount   $120,000

Location   Roxbury, MA

Program   FoodShot Global Challenge

Matching Funders   FoodShot Global

Grantee Institution   Foodshot Global

FoodShot Global’s GroundBreaker Prize recognizes rising scientific stars whose research has identified technological and ecological tools that enable farmers to optimize yields and the long-term health of the land. Josh Trautwein, CEO of About Fresh, received $120,000 for his work in BioActive Foods to deploy user-centered design and technology, including the Fresh Connect debit card, to create a scalable model for increasing access to healthy foods in low-income communities. About Fresh’s Fresh Connect platform enables healthcare organizations to make targeted investments in healthy food for people and to measure the impact of their investment, fulfilling the BioActive Foods goal of improving access to nutrient-dense and optimized foods that support brain, immune system, cardiovascular, metabolic and gut health.

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

Grantee Institution   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.

Plant-Based Precision Irrigation Management for Improved System-Level Sustainability

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $753,206

Total award amount   $1,507,062

Location   Athens, GA

Program   Seeding Solutions

Matching Funders   University of Georgia

Grantee Institution   University of Georgia

Cotton, which contributes billions to the United States’ economy, faces escalating threats from climate change-induced droughts. Cotton growers urgently need water management strategies to maximize productivity while minimizing water use. University of Georgia researchers are developing cotton-based precision irrigation scheduling strategies to ensure optimal water use to improve water use efficiency, ensure yield stability and enhance economic productivity.

UC Davis Receives FFAR Grant to Help Improve Vineyard Soil Health

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $999,003

Total award amount   $2,600,000

Location   Davis, CA

Program   Seeding Solutions

Matching Funders   Jackson Family Wines

Grantee Institution   University of California Davis

Regenerative agriculture, which uses holistic farming and grazing practices to strengthen soil health and crop productivity, may help grape vines become more resilient to changing climate conditions. However, more research is needed to increase adoption of regenerative agriculture practices on vineyards. FFAR awarded a Seeding Solutions grant to the University of California, Davis to assess the effects of regenerative practices on vineyard soil health.