Increasing Climate Resilience in Crops

Our Increasing Climate Resilience in Crops Program is developing solutions to increase crops’ tolerance for higher temperatures.
Generating Next Generation Crops Solutions
Our Increasing Climate Resilience in Crops Program is developing solutions to increase crops’ tolerance for higher temperatures.

Program Contact

Ryan Comella
rcomella@foundationfar.org

Development Contact

Catherine Maxwell
cmaxwell@foundationfar.org

This program is closed

About the Increasing Climate Resilience in Crops Program

Scientists predict that climate change will lead to higher temperatures, as well as greater temperature variability. These changes can dramatically affect agriculture systems, decreasing crop productivity, harming farmers’ livelihoods and threatening global food security.

The future of food production depends on crops’ abilities to thrive despite higher global temperatures and other environmental stresses.

Our Increasing Climate Resilience in Crops Program, co-funded with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a competitive research program to develop the critical solutions necessary to enhance the sustainable production of nutritious food. The research funded will enhance the climate resiliency of plants in a profitable and sustainable manner.

This funding opportunity aims to specifically increase heat tolerance in one or more of the following crop species: banana, cassava, chickpea, common bean, cowpea, groundnut, maize, millet, rice, sweet potato, sorghum, wheat and yam. The funded research will increase the basal or acquired thermotolerance in the crop species mentioned above. This funding opportunity aims to generate solutions that can be applied in low-income countries.

Increasing Climate Resilience in Crops Awarded Grants

Unravelling the genetics of cowpea adaptation to high temperatures for legume improvement

Year Awarded  2021

FFAR award amount   $490,617

Total award amount   $981,233

Location   Fort Collins, CO

Program   Increasing Climate Resilience in Crops

Matching Funders   Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Leveraging landrace genomics to rapidly engineer thermotolerant cassava

Year Awarded  2021

FFAR award amount   $499,999

Total award amount   $999,999

Location   Davis, CA

Program   Increasing Climate Resilience in Crops

Matching Funders   Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Genetic incorporation of physiological mechanisms of high night temperature tolerance into rice improvement programs

Year Awarded  2021

FFAR award amount   $384,369

Total award amount   $768,738

Location   College Station, TX

Program   Increasing Climate Resilience in Crops

Matching Funders   Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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