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This cooperative agreement award of $300,000 from the Department of Agriculture Office of the Chief Economist through the Agricultural Market and Economic Research program (CFDA 10.290) will support economic modeling and analysis to inform policymaking. The awardee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, will update global agricultural models to current USDA and OECD/FAO projections and conduct counterfactual trade scenarios excluding the U.S. to analyze impacts of competitive free...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Chief Economist provides $100,000 to Kansas State University to examine the role of agricultural trade and spatial correlation in climate change adaptation under the Agricultural Market and Economic Research federal grant program (CFDA #10.290). Nelson Villoria and Jesse Tack from Kansas State University will work with the Office of the Chief Economist to conduct an extensive literature review and empirical...

The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley has been awarded a $646,167 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) to study methods for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector through the use of carbon markets. The first phase of the project involves developing an economic modeling framework to evaluate which emissions mitigation pathways, such as soil...

Purdue University was awarded a $10 million project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (AFRI, CFDA No. 10.310). The five-year grant will support the "#DiverseCornBelt" initiative to advance the understanding and adoption of diversified agricultural systems in the US Midwest through research, modeling, stakeholder engagement, and education. A...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA AMS) under the Wholesale Farmers and Alternative Market Development program (CFDA 10.164) will provide $304,129 to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation to conduct applied research and program evaluation focused on local food value chains in Kentucky. The key products and services to be delivered include: Value chain coordination network mapping and benchmarking to identify...

The Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office awarded a $14.8 million Project Grant to the Vanguard (Ote) Consortium through the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities federal grant program. The grant will support efforts to expand markets for climate-smart hay, beef, row crops and specialty crops in Mississippi by funding implementation and monitoring of climate-smart agricultural practices through April 2028. The Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities...

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded Texas Tech University a $649,970 project grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to analyze the impacts of domestic and international agricultural policies on commodity markets, trade, and welfare. Over a three-year period ending December 2025, the university will develop gravity trade models to estimate trade elasticities and tariff equivalents for non-tariff barriers across highly disaggregated...

The Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office awarded Elevated Foods Inc. a $20 million Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Project Grant to expand markets for climate-smart fruits and vegetables in 11 states and the Navajo Nation from April 2023 to April 2028. Under the award, Elevated Foods will employ Croptrak's FarmAdvisor platform and modules to manage producers' land and assets and document their climate-smart practices and acreage. Decade Impact...

This Project Grant award, valued at $650,000 and awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, aims to empirically assess the importance and sustainability of adaptive irrigation under climate change. The three key objectives are: 1) estimating the link between extreme heat and adaptive irrigation, 2) predicting groundwater stock dynamics under climate change, and 3) analyzing...

This $650,000 federal Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research to develop a publicly accessible toolkit for climate impact assessments on agriculture. The key products and services to be delivered include: Evaluating the bias of current methods for modeling climate change impacts, 2) Proposing robust and data-driven estimators to model heterogeneity in climate damage functions, 3)...