This $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Agriculture Office of the Chief Economist will support the development of an economic model and food insecurity analysis through the Agricultural and Food Policy Research Centers program. Awarded to Texas A&M Agrilife Research on April 1, 2021 for a three-year period concluding March 31, 2024, the agreement involves two major tasks. First, the recipient will develop a detailed structural model of U.S. Department of Agriculture...
The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri (FAPRI-MU) will receive $1,975,000 through September 2022 under a cooperative agreement with the Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Economist. This funding supports the Agricultural and Food Policy Research Centers federal grant program (CFDA #10.291). FAPRI-MU will work with the Office of the Chief Economist to conduct analysis of agricultural markets and policies. This will include providing...
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...
The Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service awarded $230,000 to Texas A&M Agrilife Research through the Food Safety Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 10.479) for the period of October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. Under this cooperative agreement, Texas A&M Agrilife Research will enhance the Food Emergency Response Network's (FERN) laboratory testing capability and capacity. As the parent organization of Texas A&M Agrilife Research, The Texas A&M...
This $1,300,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the USDA Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) will support Texas A&M University in conducting research related to African Swine Fever and Classical Swine Fever. The award, which is effective from September 15, 2023 to September 14, 2025, will fund research projects, data analysis, and technical services aimed at advancing scientific understanding and management strategies for these critical livestock diseases....
This $250,000 cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Economist will fund research under the Agricultural Market and Economic Research program (CFDA #10.290). Oklahoma State University will lead a consortium of universities to conduct two research projects related to market concentration and sustainability in the livestock and meat supply systems. The first project involves a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of concentration and...
This $14,943,460 federal Formula Grant award, under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Payments to Agricultural Experiment Stations Under the Hatch Act (CFDA 10.203) program, supports comprehensive agricultural research at Texas A&M AgriLife Research. The funding enables the state government entity and 1862 land-grant college to conduct research across diverse areas including plant and animal health, production and protection, soil and water conservation, agricultural economics,...
This $10 million Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service supports the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program. Texas A&M Agrilife Research will develop research program infrastructure through capacity building efforts to allow an integrated, multidisciplinary research program with USDA-ARS that better aligns agriculture and human nutrition needs to improve human health. Key deliverables include refurbishing the Borlaug Center to...
Texas A&M Agrilife Research was awarded a $649,999 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. Through this award, Texas A&M Agrilife Research will develop and use an integrated modeling approach to evaluate carbon markets and climate-smart agriculture and forestry practice incentives and policies from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The research aims...
This federal Formula Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Payments to Agricultural Experiment Stations Under the Hatch Act (CFDA 10.203) program, supports comprehensive agricultural research by Texas A&M AgriLife Research. The $3,756,447 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2026, enables Texas A&M AgriLife Research to conduct fundamental and applied research across diverse areas such as...