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RIPE Shows Potential for Improved Water-Use Efficiency in Field-Grown Plants 

UC Davis Receives FFAR Grant to Help Improve Vineyard Soil Health 

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.

Tuskegee University Endowment 

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $1,000,000

Total award amount   $2,000,000

Location   Tuskegee, AL

Matching Funders   Clif Bar & Company

Grantee Institution   Tuskegee University

This award establishes an endowment to advance organic agriculture and farming practices in the Southeast through the university’s College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences. The endowment will also focus on increasing the equity in organic farming, including developing a network of organic research among Southeast academic institutions, with a focus on HBCUs.

FFAR and OFRF Announce Six Organic Farming Research Project Awardees 

IIC Announces $1 Million for New Research to Advance Irrigation Management 

AgMission CIAT Grant Evaluates the Risk of Climate Disruption for Key Crops across Geographies 

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $100,000

Total award amount   $200,000

Location   Palmira, Colombia

Program   AgMission

Matching Funders   PepsiCo

Grantee Institution   International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Extreme events are increasing in frequency and severity and have impacted key crops in this region, repeatedly demonstrating how vulnerable local agriculture is to droughts, floods heatwaves and other unpredictable weather. CIAT researchers are identifying and assessing the likelihood of future climate risks and extreme events, and their potential impacts on yields and quality of key crops in North America, South Africa, Egypt and Brazil.

Grant Quantifies Farm Risk Mitigation Through Improved Soil Health 

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $715,611

Total award amount   $1,449,610

Location   Grass Valley, CA

Program   Seeding Solutions

Matching Funders   Paul and June Rossetti Foundation, Mighty Arrow Family Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund, Great Island Foundation and Records-Johnston Family Foundation

Grantee Institution   Land Core

This research is generating an unprecedented market-based, actuarially-sound model to quantify farm risk mitigation through the adoption of good soil health practices. The model will provide agricultural lenders and insurers who price risk an economic rational to factor in incentives such as better terms or lower loan rates and insurance prices to producers adopting good soil health practices.

Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) Grazing Research in the U.S. Northern Great Plains 

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $1,550,000

Total award amount   $3,100,000

Location   Tempe, AZ

Matching Funders   McDonald's USA

Grantee Institution   Arizona State

Researchers are investigating whether Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing, in relation to widespread continuous grazing practices, contributes to measurable differences in overall soil health, environmental sustainability and farmer profitability within the U.S. Northern Great Plains.

Expanding development of a predictive model to quantify the risk reduction associated with specific soil health practices for use by private & public lenders & insurers to incentivize the transition to resilient, climate-smart agriculture 

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $715,611

Total award amount   $1,449,610

Location   Grass Valley, CA

Program   Seeding Solutions

Matching Funders   Paul and June Rossetti Foundation, Mighty Arrow Family Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund, Great Island Foundation and Records-Johnston Family Foundation

Grantee Institution   Land Core

This research is generating an unprecedented market-based, actuarially-sound model to quantify farm risk mitigation through the adoption of good soil health practices. The model will provide agricultural lenders and insurers who price risk an economic rational to factor in incentives such as better terms or lower loan rates and insurance prices to producers adopting good soil health practices.