Cooperative Agreement FX23TA10960C006

This $599,965.15 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service under the Technical Agricultural Assistance program (CFDA 10.960) supports strengthening agricultural research, education, and extension services in the country of Georgia. The prime awardee, Sectorial Platform Farmer Of Future, a woman-owned non-profit organization, will facilitate coordination among Georgian universities, ministries, and other stakeholders to pilot and expand...

This $294,000 federal Project Grant award to Kansas State University (KSU), under the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), supports a 3-year research project to advance the science of sustainable intensification of wheat production. The key objectives are to: (1) conduct a comprehensive literature review on sustainable intensification of major crops globally, (2) perform economic and life cycle assessments of...

This $800,000 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 research to improve the breadmaking quality of triticale grain. Led by the University of California, Davis from Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2026, the collaborative network aims to identify genes responsible for loaf volume in select triticale lines and incorporate favorable wheat breadmaking genes into...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $124,324 cooperative agreement to the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF Global) to fund international collaborative research projects and related scientific activities under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program. Through December 2022, CRDF Global will utilize the award to support the implementation of research projects and workshops through their Global Solutions - Impact...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $225,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) to Technology Matters (TECH Matters), a nonprofit strategic technology organization. The funding supports the development of technologies for sustainable land management, monitoring, and research over the period of Aug 15, 2023 to Mar 31, 2027. Key project activities include developing sustainable...

This $476,610 Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program will fund the establishment of a large multi-environment wheat trial called the BIG6. The Ohio State University will lead the effort in collaboration with sub-awardees Cornell University, Michigan State University, the University of Kentucky Research Foundation, the University of Illinois, and Purdue...

This $585,414 Project Grant award was provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The award supports research at Oklahoma State University (OSU) to address key challenges in hard winter wheat production, including identifying disease resistance genes and developing high-throughput phenotyping capabilities to rapidly screen for barley yellow dwarf virus resistance. The project aims to map resistance...

The University of Georgia will provide agricultural research services under a $185,239 cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. The funding supports the project "Increasing the Value of U.S. Soybean by Combining High Meal Protein, High Yield and Other Valuable Traits Utilizing Genetic Diversity, Breeding" from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. The research aims to discover methods for improving soybean yields and...

This Project Grant award, totaling $225,000.00, was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.310). The funding supports a research project led by Oregon State University to investigate how wheat cultivars and their associated microbial communities, or microbiomes, can be leveraged to enhance yield and improve resilience to abiotic and...

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...