This Cooperative Agreement award is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program. The $1,133,122 award supports a collaborative research project focused on harnessing controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to enhance food security, nutritional quality, and climate resilience in tribal communities across New Mexico, Wyoming, and South Dakota. The project is a partnership among the University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University,...
This $1,060,678 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program will fund a collaborative research project focused on advancing controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to enhance food security and climate resilience for tribal communities across three EPSCoR jurisdictions. The project team, led by the University of Wyoming, includes researchers from community colleges, universities, and tribal organizations in New Mexico,...
This $358,842 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program supports a collaborative research project led by New Mexico State University to harness controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to enhance food security, nutrition, and climate resilience in tribal communities across three EPSCoR jurisdictions. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) characterize how the environment, plants, and microbes interact in hydroponic...
This $1,209,043 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), aims to enhance climate resilience and sustainability of soybean production in response to the impacts of climate change. The project brings together a multidisciplinary team of scientists, educators, social and economic researchers, extension specialists, and outreach professionals to assess climate change effects on soybean crops from the cellular...
This $921,994 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports an interdisciplinary research project led by Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter) to enhance the resilience of soybean crops to climate change. The project takes a comprehensive, multi-pronged approach to assess climate change impacts on soybean at the cellular, plant, and field levels, and develop precision agriculture solutions....
This $615,394 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) supports the participation of three U.S. universities in an international collaboration to co-design climate-smart indigenous food gardens in South African schools. The project aims to integrate indigenous and local ecological knowledge with climate modeling to develop climate-smart gardening practices and improve child health, climate literacy, and...
This $1,382,500 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to advance quality and climate-resilient water management in three U.S. regions - the Lakota tribe in South Dakota, the Navajo tribe in New Mexico, and flood-prone farming communities in Vermont. The "Advancing Quality and Climate-Resilient Water Management with Community Partnerships and Enhanced Sensor Network (AQUA-CLIME)" project will create a...
This Cooperative Agreement award for $868,961.00, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), supports an interdisciplinary research project to enhance soybean resilience to climate change. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RII FEC: INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM OF ADVANCING CLIMATE EXTREME RESILIENCE IN SOYBEAN," brings together a team of scientists, educators, and outreach professionals to assess the impact of climate change on...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,000,001 Cooperative Agreement under its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to South Dakota State University to establish the Center for Climate-Conscious Agricultural Technologies (CCAT). The CCAT project aims to develop and deploy microbial fertilizers as a climate-friendly alternative to synthetic fertilizers, which contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and have other negative environmental impacts. The project will leverage...
This $529,293 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides funding to Langston University, a historically black university in Oklahoma, to conduct collaborative research focused on supporting rural livelihoods and climate-resilient agriculture in the water-stressed Central High Plains region. The key objectives of the project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RII TRACK-2 FEC: SUPPORTING RURAL LIVELIHOODS IN THE...
This cooperative agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $447,193 to the University of South Dakota (USD) and its partners to advance research, education, and workforce development in the domain of controlled environment agriculture (CEA). The project aims to address climate change impacts on food security and community resilience, particularly for tribal communities, by empirically determining best practices for secure CEA food production and quantifying the socio-economic impacts of CEA. The multi-institutional collaboration brings together researchers from diverse fields, including plant physiology, engineering, economics, and sustainability science, to characterize the interactions between the environment, plants, and microbes in hydroponic systems, identify environmental and socio-economic drivers of CEA, and empower tribal communities through interdisciplinary training for a climate-smart CEA workforce. The project involves sub-awards to additional partners, including New Mexico State University, Santa Fe Community College, and the Sicangu Community Development Corporation, to leverage their complementary expertise and resources.