Project Grant 20236801539269
Award Date
3/1/23
Completion Date
2/28/27
Dollars Obligated
$1M
Federal Agency
Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition
Federal Grant Program
10.310
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Similar Awards
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA program provides $994,586 to study the effectiveness of regulations and new technologies in reducing the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria on dairy farms. The 5-year project will assess the impact of rules limiting antibiotic use, evaluate manure treatment methods for removing resistant bacteria, and model the...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside was awarded a $750,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The four-year project aims to develop strategies to minimize the accumulation of chemicals of environmental concern in edible plant tissues when using treated wastewater for agricultural irrigation. Through field experiments on row...
This $1,000,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program (CFDA #10.310) will fund development of an adaptable framework called CAMRADES to connect antimicrobial resistance, agricultural decisions, and environmental systems. Iowa State University will integrate predictive models of antimicrobial transport and associated human health risk into the...
This $800,000 federal Project Grant award to George Washington University (The) was made by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant supports research to understand the horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) mediated by membrane vesicles in water matrices relevant to agricultural water reuse. The research aims to elucidate the persistence and removal of vesicle-associated ARGs in...
The University of California, Riverside received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) on August 1, 2022 to complete work by July 31, 2024. The funding supports the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program, which provides support for fundamental and applied research, extension, and education addressing food and agricultural sciences (CFDA #10.310). Specifically,...
This Project Grant award, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, CFDA 10.310), aims to address the challenge of assuring the quality of agricultural return flows and reclaimed water for irrigation. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) is the prime awardee, receiving $648,952 to (i) develop carbon-60 probes to identify waterborne pathogens, (ii) create and validate...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside was awarded a 5-year, $250,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) to study the impact of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in reclaimed wastewater on the soil microbiome and plant-microbe interactions of soybeans. The key objectives are to: 1) measure CEC concentrations in reclaimed wastewater used for irrigation...
This $899,202 project grant, awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), aims to address the challenges of water scarcity and groundwater nitrate contamination faced by agricultural communities in California's Central Coast region. Through a combination of controlled trials and on-farm participatory research, the project will investigate how different cover crop management practices can...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $949,997 Project Grant to Iowa State University of Science and Technology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to investigate the role of environmental factors in the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in municipal wastewater treatment plants. The five-year research project, starting November 1, 2023, will conduct field, laboratory, and computational studies to determine how susceptible bacterial strains are replaced by...
This $650,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) supports research to investigate the role of environmental factors in the development of antibiotic resistance among bacteria in municipal wastewater treatment plants. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year award include: Conducting integrated field, laboratory, and computational studies to...