Project Grant SGH10024GR0022

This Project Grant award of $595,552 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), is for developing a two-way SMS platform to prevent and treat wasting among HIV-infected and HIV-exposed uninfected children. The project will create a novel intervention that combines a maternally administered malnutrition monitoring system (MAMMS) with infant and young child feeding (IYCF)...

This Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture totals $100,000 to create a spatially-explicit, web-based decision support tool to inform sustainable grazing land management decisions. Funded under the Renewable Resources Extension Act program (CFDA 10.515), the tool will combine remotely-sensed rangeland production data with user-defined local knowledge to assess forage availability variability and support grazing management planning....

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) program (CFDA 47.079), supports a collaborative research project examining the sustainability of dryland systems in Kenya. The $155,542 award, effective September 1, 2024, through August 31, 2027, establishes a student-scout partnership to investigate the essential role of mobility in connecting social and environmental components of these dryland systems. The...

This Project Grant award of $284,207.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports research at Cornell University examining farmer decision-making processes related to climate adaptation through the adoption of new crop varieties. The key products of this 3-year project include: (1) developing a multi-scale modeling approach combining land surface modeling, satellite...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) supports a collaborative research project focused on understanding and promoting sustainable transitions in Kenyan dryland systems. The $124,129 award, with a performance period from September 2024 to August 2027, enables a partnership between U.S. undergraduate students and Kenyan scouts to conduct field research using methods such as GPS livestock tracking, plant...

This $999,925 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture aims to develop climate-smart drought outreach and training programs for rangeland stakeholders in the western U.S. Key objectives include: Establishing a novel interdisciplinary community of practice called STEERS (Strengthening Extension and Education in Rangeland Systems) to co-develop climate adaptation programming with university extension, USDA...

This $110,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Bureau of Land Management (CFDA 15.245 - Plant Conservation and Restoration Management), supports a project to better understand and quantify the impacts of water harvesting structures and strategic grazing management on vegetation restoration in the Hatch and Mesilla Valley region of New Mexico. The key objectives are to develop a comprehensive restoration design and monitoring approach, and to work closely with ranchers to implement grazing...

This Project Grant award of $750,000 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the 1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants Program (CFDA 10.216) supports Fort Valley State University (FVSU), a historically black land-grant university, in developing online curriculum and experiential learning opportunities focused on the real-world application of big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to improve the sustainability of small ruminant (sheep and...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $599,997.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to understand how organizations that support vulnerable populations, such as migrants and veterans, use technology to build resilience and adapt to changing needs and conditions. The research team at the University of Colorado, Boulder will conduct interviews and focus groups with organizations serving refugee...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $737,332 project grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to Colorado State University. The 3-year project, beginning June 1, 2024, aims to develop a high-resolution, near real-time monitoring and forecasting system for agroecosystem drought and forage production in the Western Great Plains. The system will leverage satellite and ground observation data as well...