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How Heat Stress Impacts Swine Health

Portrait of Lauren Anderson.

FFAR Fellow, Lauren Anderson

North Carolina State University

Grants Improve Antibiotic Use in Livestock

FFAR Grant Improves Plant-based Protein’s Production and Nutritional Content

FFAR Grant Develops Vaccine to Protect Farm-Raised Fish

Plant-XR: A New Generation of Breeding Tools for Extra-Resilient Crops

Year Awarded  2022

Total award amount   $31,948,325

Location   Utrecht, the Netherlands

Matching Funders   CropXR, Dutch Research Council, National Growth Fund

Grantee Institution   CropXR

As the pace of climate change picks up, speeding the development of resilient crops is urgent. CropXR is building, supporting and facilitating a development pipeline for more resilient, sustainable and climate-adapted varieties of agricultural crops. The research combines plant biology, computational modelling and artificial intelligence to create computational, functional plant models to predict and guide rational, targeted breeding and cultivation strategies.

FFAR Grant Develops Additional African Swine Fever Vaccines

Identifying Proteins Required for Immunity to ASFV

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $500,000

Total award amount   $1,000,000

Location   Plum Island, NY

Program   Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research

Matching Funders   National Pork Board

Grantee Institution   USDA

African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) is a highly contagious, fatal disease in pigs that spreads rapidly and there is no commercially available vaccine to mitigate the spread of ASFV. Led by Dr. Douglas Gladue, USDA researchers are pinpointing the viral proteins involved in immunity and infection to develop a vector-based subunit vaccine, a vaccine that include a component of the virus to stimulate an immune response, for ASFV.

Analyzing the Efficacy of Live-vectored Prototype ASFV Subunit Vaccines

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $150,000

Total award amount   $300,000

Location   Manhattan, KS

Program   Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research

Matching Funders   MEDIAN Diagnostics

Grantee Institution   Kansas State University

African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) is a highly contagious, fatal disease in pigs that spreads rapidly and there is no commercially available vaccine to mitigate the spread of ASFV. Led by Dr. Waithaka Mwangi, Kansas State University researchers are using an adenovirus vector vaccine, which is a tool used to deliver target antigens to the host, and a paper-based diagnostic test that distinguishes vaccinated from infected animals.

Fast Tracking Climate Solutions from Global Germplasm Banks

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $5,000,000

Total award amount   $11,500,000

Location   Texcoco, Mexico

Matching Funders   Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Grantee Institution   CIMMYT

This initiative, led by the CGIAR in partnership with FFAR and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), is potentially advancing transformative approaches to expand the utilization of high-value genetic diversity from germplasm banks to develop new climate-smart crop varieties for millions of smallholder farmers worldwide.

Promoting Mung Bean Crop Opportunities

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