Project Grant 201670001247061

This three-year $399,748 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences will fund research towards regenerative landscape futures. The grantee, The Pennsylvania State University, will examine the role of policy legacies, environmental stressors, and landscape change on mixed agricultural and pastoral lands. The research aims to advance understanding of landscape patterns and processes that promote regenerative capacity under contemporary and...

The Land Institute received a two-year, $165,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant will support research to develop an analytical program to identify ecologically-based intercropping systems that can sustainably increase agricultural productivity and crop defenses. Specifically, the Land Institute will leverage a dataset of over...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $121,978 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. to investigate the long-term relationship between climate change and agricultural response, focusing on human interactions with plants and animals in dynamic natural and cultural landscapes. The research aims to illuminate how agrarian societies have responded to pronounced environmental...

The National Resources Conservation Service awarded Colorado State University a $137,134 cooperative agreement under the Wetlands Reserve Program to evaluate the capacity of climate-adaptive restoration treatments and seed sources to promote healthy and resilient rangelands in the face of climate change. The two-year project will assess climate-resilient strategies for restoring rangeland ecosystems in Colorado through research on restoration treatments and seed sources. Results of the...

This $1,100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program supports an innovative research collaboration between New Mexico State University (NMSU) and local stakeholders in northern New Mexico. The goal is to enhance the resilience of traditional acequia irrigation systems and associated socio-environmental systems to climate change and other emerging challenges. The project employs a convergence research approach that integrates...

This $189,938.24 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program aims to develop strategies for assessing and mitigating social-ecological vulnerability in communities surrounding large protected areas in the Southeast U.S. The project, led by North Carolina State University with sub-awards to the University of South Carolina and University of Tennessee Knoxville, has three main...

This two-year, $143,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program will fund postdoctoral research examining the long-term effects of socioeconomic activity on ecological stability. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Kristina Douglass at Columbia University, the early career scientist will study the impacts of different small-scale foraging, herding and agricultural livelihood strategies on soil and vegetation diversity. By shifting...

This $750,686 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil and Water Conservation Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.902) aims to increase the adoption of climate-smart initiatives through conservation planning among non-traditional, small-scale, urban, and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. The primary deliverables include: Developing workshops to share ideas and opportunities on effectively working with...

This $344,113 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program. The project, titled "Management Strategies for Mega-Disturbances: Building Climate-Resilient Rangelands Amidst Fire, Grazing, and Ecological Invasion in California," will investigate how increased fire frequency, grazing, and invasive species impact rangeland vegetation and soil health. The University of Arizona...

This $350,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731) supports the Institute for Conservation Leadership (ICL) in building capacity and developing communities of practice to assist landowner assistance programs. The award will enable ICL, a woman-owned non-profit organization, to provide facilitation services, leadership coaching, and technical assistance to...