Cooperative Agreement 7200AA19LE00004

Resources for the Future Inc. was awarded a $649,545 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The three-year project will assess the role of two major US farm support programs—the Federal Crop Insurance Program and Conservation Reserve Program—in both facilitating and potentially interfering with agricultural adaptation to extreme and variable weather. The...

This five-year, $1.5 million Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) supports Montana State University in collaborating with Climate Hub staff and regional stakeholders to develop improved educational materials and expertise to help farmers and ranchers in the Southwest and Northern Plains assess sources of past production losses due to weather and climate disruption, as...

This $10 million project grant from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA #10.310), will fund research, education, and extension activities to build resilience in local and regional food systems in the Midwest region against multiple concurrent shocks such as pandemics, climate events, and foodborne pathogens. Michigan State University is the primary awardee and will collaborate...

The Cooperative Agreement award of $515,000 from the United States Agency for International Development will support Cornell University in effectively engaging students from minority-serving institutions in the ongoing activities of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement and its partners through September 2024. Under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas program (CFDA #98.001), which works to support long-term and equitable economic growth and advance U.S. foreign...

This three-year, $649,998 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (CFDA 10.310) supports research and modeling to develop a more data-driven framework for evaluating interventions aimed at mitigating tradeoffs between resilience and sustainability in the US animal protein food system. Colorado State University is the primary awardee and will work with sub-awardees...

This $624,029 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of a Food Index for Resilience, Security, and Tangible Solutions (FIRST) to measure community food system resilience in the face of hurricanes. A research team led by the University of Maryland Baltimore County and including subawardees the University of Arkansas and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington will develop conceptual and...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to test a budgeting intervention to address seasonal hunger in Malawi. The project aims to pilot test and evaluate a planning intervention adapted for the Malawian context, which will be rolled out nationwide with One Acre Fund's (1AF) farming clients. The goal is to understand...

This Project Grant award of $284,207.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports research at Cornell University examining farmer decision-making processes related to climate adaptation through the adoption of new crop varieties. The key products of this 3-year project include: (1) developing a multi-scale modeling approach combining land surface modeling, satellite...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $636,000 project grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to strengthen the capacity of farmers markets. The three-year project aims to identify current and potential farmers market consumer segments, with an emphasis on underrepresented individuals, through a national survey. Informed by the survey findings, messaging strategies will be...

This Project Grant award of $649,931 from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will support research to investigate labor issues in the U.S. food supply chain. The project aims to develop quantitative insights on employment dynamics, market consolidation impacts, and the relationship between labor and food prices across the food system. The research will involve compiling national...