What We Do

FFAR conducts research in six challenge areas.
These Challenge Areas form FFAR’s strategic research framework.

Tackling today’s food and agriculture challenges demands top talent.

Moving the field toward solutions in six pressing challenges facing food and agriculture.

FFAR seizes scientific opportunity.

Challenge Areas

Harnessing Photosynthesis

Breakthroughs 2030 Study

Crops of the Future Collaborative

Rapid Response

Pollinator Health Fund

Crops in silico

National Academy of Sciences Mid-Career Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences

New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Early Career Award

Graduate Student Fellowship