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Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research Opens Seeding Solutions Funding Opportunity: $7 Million Available for Bold Science Addressing Food and Agriculture Challenges

Washington, D.C.

Seeding Solutions Pre-Proposals to be accepted through January 16, 2017.

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research today launched Seeding Solutions, a funding opportunity for researchers proposing to address one of the Foundation’s seven food and agriculture Challenge Areas, which range from making agricultural water use more efficient to promoting healthy food choices.

Prospective Seeding Solutions grantees are invited to submit a pre-proposal for up to $1 million of Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research funding and must secure equal or greater matching funding from a non-Federal source before a grant will be awarded. The Foundation anticipates funding at least one meritorious and transformative proposal in each of its Challenge Areas: Food Waste and Loss, Healthy Soils Thriving Farms, Innovation Pathway to Sustainability, Making “My Plate” Your Plate, Protein Challenge, Urban Food Systems and Water Scarcity.

Portrait of Sally Rockey.
The breadth of proposals that the Foundation is accepting for the Seeding Solutions program leaves the door open for new and creative ways of working toward our mission to tackle some of the most monumental issues in food and agriculture. I look forward to supporting the bold scientific proposals that show promise of progress toward solutions in our Challenge Areas. Sally Rockey, Ph.D.
Executive Director Emeritus

The Seeding Solutions program is the first funding opportunity within the Foundation’s recently launched Challenge Areas and is just one of an array of programs and partnerships to be launched in pursuit of scientific solutions to today’s most pressing challenges in food and agriculture.

Yesterday, the Foundation announced the nine recipients of its New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award, a program that supports the next generation of food and agriculture scientists through grants to early career faculty members and the students and post-doctoral scholars who collaborate on their innovative research pursuits.

Learn more about Seeding Solutions.