Project Grant 20246701342382
- This $650,000 federal Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research to develop a publicly accessible toolkit for climate impact assessments on agriculture. The key products and services to be delivered include: Evaluating the bias of current methods for modeling climate change impacts, 2) Proposing robust and data-driven estimators to model heterogeneity in climate damage functions, 3)...
- This $521,387 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to investigate the dynamics of crop diversification and simplification traps in agricultural systems. The project uses modeling, interviews, and historical data analysis to characterize how socio-technical lock-in can pose barriers to greater crop diversification, and how this in turn impacts the resilience of interconnected...
- The Michigan State University will receive $650,000 under a five-year Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The funding is provided through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (AFRI CGP) to support research optimizing crop rotation sequences for yields and sustainability. Specifically, the university will conduct greenhouse and field experiments on four major cash crops - canola, maize,...
- 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 $299,496 federal Project Grant award from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, CFDA 10.310, aims to build gene regulatory networks that combine gene expression and epigenomic data from nitrogen and CO2 treatments to enhance the accuracy of predictions and identify key transcription factors involved in coordinating carbon-nitrogen homeostasis in legumes. The goal is to develop strategies to achieve maximum crop yield and quality in future climates. The award...
- The University of California, Berkeley received a $800,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture through its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (AFRI, CFDA #10.310). The grant aims to assess how more diversified cropping systems impact maize and soybean yields during stressful weather across approximately one million fields in the Midwest, identifying areas where additional cash crops and...
- 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 Project Grant award for $649,835.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310 - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) will support a multi-year research project at the University of Minnesota. The project aims to: Improve and extend sub-national agricultural input, output, and productivity metrics over a century-long time period; Quantify the productivity implications of long-term shifts in the geographic footprint of U.S....
- This $180,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research by the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to identify and re-engineer genes involved in environmental stress tolerance in plants. The goal is to cultivate higher-yielding, climate-resilient crop varieties that can sustainably meet the food demands of a growing...
- This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program provides $649,912 to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) for a multi-year research project examining the effects of agroecological practices on crop resilience to climate change. The project will investigate the individual and combined impacts of manipulating crop row orientation/spacing, cover cropping,...
This $650,000 federal Project Grant award from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) supports research to evaluate the benefits and trade-offs of crop rotational diversity as a climate adaptation strategy. The Agricultural Research Service, a U.S. government agency, will utilize a database of long-term cropping system experiments to quantify how increased rotation diversity impacts resilience to adverse weather, producer economic stability, and nutritional outputs. The Bayesian statistical modeling approach will incorporate prior scientific knowledge to assess the reliability of inferences from varying experimental designs. This foundational knowledge project aims to derive general principles about the performance of agricultural production systems and investigate the effects of diversifying cropping systems on outcomes beneficial to system resilience. The award period is from Jul 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $650.0k | 5/8/24 |