Project Grant 20246702342696
Award Date
7/15/24
Completion Date
7/14/27
Dollars Obligated
$800K
Federal Agency
Institute of Food Production and Sustainability
Federal Grant Program
10.310
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Worcester, MA 01610, USA
Similar Awards
This $527,360 Project Grant awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will fund research to support evidence-based policymaking for agricultural water conservation. The key objectives of the 3-year project include: 1) collecting irrigation water rights and runoff data to create a geospatial database, 2) exploring the impact of water rights and supply uncertainty on...
This federal Project Grant award of $649,962, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, aims to understand the importance of jointly determined environmental and farm production risk in the design of agricultural policies. The research will focus on water quality management, especially in the context of climate change, using compensation programs such as government...
The federal Project Grant award of $999,091 from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will support research to quantify field to basin-scale water needs and evaluate the conserved consumptive water use from previous water conservation investments in the Southwest and Southern Plains regions. The goal is to understand realistic water savings from conservation investments in these areas facing increasing droughts and...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Clark University $799,994 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (AFRI, CFDA #10.310) for a project grant running from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2026. The grant will fund the development of next-generation choice experiment methods to value spatially-explicit agricultural conservation outcomes and ecosystem services. Clark University will design novel interactive preference...
This project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program provides $649,697 to develop an integrated assessment model called Hydroecon to measure the social costs of nutrient pollution across the United States through 2026. The University of Massachusetts leads a team that includes Cornell University, Iowa State University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to integrate economic...
This $650,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports the development of a large-scale, spatially explicit Integrated Hydro-Economic Agricultural Land Use (IHEAL) model. The model combines a multi-commodity partial equilibrium market formulation with a process-based Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to examine the interdependencies between crop production and water quality and quantity, with a focus...
This Project Grant award, totaling $649,999.00 and awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) program, supports research focused on assessing the impact of wetland regulation on rural economic development in the United States. The project has three key components: 1) Developing a machine learning model to predict which wetlands are regulated under the Supreme Court's 2023...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $749,855 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to the University of Delaware on August 1, 2022 for completion by July 31, 2026. The grant will fund research to quantify current spatial patterns of streamflow depletion and nitrogen pollution from croplands across the Mississippi River Basin and identify configurations of targeted land conservation payments that can...
This $590,706 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, supports a 3-year initiative by the American Farmland Trust (AFT) to leverage university-based research at the intersection of data science/AI and agricultural areas. The key objectives are to: (1) track and model changes in irrigation land cover patterns using AI-based big data applications, (2) better inform the future of irrigated row crops through...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $875,000.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program. The project aims to develop a new decentralized system that integrates wastewater treatment with hydroponic farming, leveraging innovations in sensors, wastewater treatment, hydroponic systems, and machine learning. The research will be conducted at...