Cooperative Agreement AIDOAAL1300001

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 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...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service under the Scientific Exchanges Program (CFDA 10.620) provides $299,999.70 to the University of California, Davis to build regional capacity in Africa for research and training on improved animal feeding, innovative fertilizer practices, and sustainable cropping methods among smallholder farmers. The award will fund 12-week training programs in the U.S. for international agricultural fellows, mentor...

This $260,000 cooperative agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (CFDA 10.620 - Scientific Exchanges Program), will support Mississippi State University's (MSU) efforts to build regional capacity and research how the adoption of improved animal feeding, fertilizer, nutrient management, and cropping practices can reduce food insecurity among African smallholder farmers. The program will provide 12-week training and mentorship programs at MSU for a...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $748,674 provides funding under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop predictive models and co-produce actionable outputs with stakeholders to improve resilience of global and local food security in the face of climate extremes. The University of California, Santa Barbara leads this research collaboration awarded on December 15, 2022 for completion by November 30, 2023. The project will...

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...

This $253,999.90 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service's Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program (CFDA 10.620) will build regional capacity to research and illustrate how the adoption of improved animal feeding coupled with innovative and efficient fertilizer, nutrient management, and cropping practices among African smallholder farmers can assist in reducing food insecurity. The prime awardee, Iowa...

This $788,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) supports the development and evaluation of conventionally bred biofortified orange corn with high provitamin A carotenoids and zinc to improve human nutrition. Key objectives include selecting and evaluating maize germplasm in Mexico and the U.S. for increased provitamin A and zinc, determining the...

This $648,764 federal Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) aims to address key challenges facing the U.S. agricultural sector in the biotech crop era. The project will construct a comprehensive dataset on the seed market, productivity, innovation, pest infestation and resistance, weather and climate, and international trade, and then conduct advanced economic analysis to evaluate policy...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports a two-year postdoctoral fellowship focused on measuring the impacts of community seed banks on nutrition, food security, and food sovereignty in underserved regions of the United States. The research objective is to identify existing agrobiodiversity conservation initiatives, such as community seed banks, in high-poverty and food-insecure regions, and trace...