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Additional Funding Opportunities
On this page, you will find a list of potential additional funding opportunities that project personnel can apply to, organized by project area.
Click on the appropriate button to jump to the funding opportunities in that project area.
Soil and Cropping Systems
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), Seeding Solutions, Health Agriculture Nexus
https://foundationfar.org/what-we-do/challenge-areas/health-agriculture-nexus/
The Health-Agriculture Nexus Challenge Area supports pioneering research to reduce food and nutrition insecurity, decrease food waste and loss and improve human health.
Research focuses on:
-
Increasing access to healthy food
-
Reducing and redirecting food loss and waste
-
Advancing plant and animal production systems
-
Breeding better nutrition
-
Improving processing and packaging technologies
-
Predicting supply and demand for crops and food animals
Lots of open opportunities: https://foundationfar.org/grants-funding/open-opportunities/
Due Date: Dependent on Opportunity
New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award
The New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award provides early-career scientists the investment needed to propel them into successful research careers. Young faculty in the sciences often struggle to secure grant funding. We established the New Innovator Awards to launch the careers of promising scientists whose research addresses significant food and agriculture challenges. These awards allow the grantees to focus exclusively on research without the pressure of securing additional funding.
https://foundationfar.org/grants-funding/opportunities/new-innovators-request-for-applications/
Due Date: May 3, 2023
Scientific Cooperation Research Program (SCRP)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Fellowship Programs, announces this funding opportunity to support the Scientific Cooperation and Research Program (SCRP) by issuing new awards. This opportunity is available to State cooperative institutions or other colleges and universities in the United States, as defined at 7 USC 3103. In addition, applicants must be former Mentors and Fellows from USDA/FAS’s Borlaug International Agricultural Technology Fellowship Program with an ongoing collaboration. This program is intended to support applied research, extension, and education collaborations between U.S. researchers and their foreign counterparts from selected emerging market economies.
The SCRP supports FAS’s Borlaug Fellowship Program and other USDA strategic goals by mobilizing the scientific communities’ accumulated knowledge and technologies through the funding of joint research, extension, and education projects. These projects are between U.S. researchers and researchers from selected emerging market economies, last up to two years, and address issues including but not limited to agricultural trade and market access, animal and plant health, biotechnology, food safety and security, climate smart agriculture, and sustainable natural resource management. Since 1980, the program has supported hundreds of projects, enhancing the technical skills of agricultural professionals, and helping beneficiary countries further develop their relationships with the U.S. agriculture sector.
In the 2023 program cycle, the SCRP will support applied research, extension, and education projects between U.S. researchers and their foreign counterparts from selected emerging market economies (as defined at 7 USC § 5623(d)(1), generally including countries listed in the lowand middle-income groups by the World Bank) who seek to create practical solutions to challenges faced by farmers and build regional or global trade capacities in target countries. Both collaborators must be a previous Mentor/Fellow pair from USDA/FAS’s Borlaug International Agricultural Technology Fellowship Program (Borlaug Fellowship Program).
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=346675
Due Date: May 10, 2023
Western SARE: Research & Education 2024 Call for Pre-proposals
This program involves scientists, agricultural producers, and others using interdisciplinary approaches to advance sustainable agriculture at local and regional levels. With the collaboration of producers, projects must integrate rigorous research and education aiming to advance the three components of sustainable agriculture- environmental, economic, and social- and use innovative educational outreach to disseminate new knowledge to students, producers, and stakeholders. It is expected that outcomes of funded projects will result in quantifiable benefits for producers, increase the preservation of the natural resources upon which agriculture depends, and be documented in scholarly journals and disseminated through teaching and educational activities with students, producers, and other agricultural stakeholders.
https://www.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/RE_Pre-proposals-2024.pdf
Due Date: May 23, 2023, 12:00pm MST
Seeding Solutions encourages the development of unique partnerships that support innovative and transformative research focused on one of our Challenge Areas or AgMission.
To be considered, applications must address and provide solutions to an intractable problem and/or accelerate innovation within FFAR’s Challenge Areas or AgMission.
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Soil Health: Advanced understanding of what soil health is, how it is measured and how to manage and optimize the sustainable delivery of the ecosystem services which soils provide.
-
Sustainable Water Management: Interdisciplinary, model–based research to enhance terrestrial water quality and supplies and minimize linked environmental impacts while maximizing crop production through increased adoption of strategically placed and designed agricultural water management practices.
-
Next Generation Crops: Advanced breeding methods and development of biotic and abiotic stress tolerance for crops grown in organic and conventional cropping systems to increase farmer profitability and environmental resilience.
-
Advanced Animal Systems: Improved animal health, welfare and productivity, antibiotic stewardship, and environmental sustainability. We particularly encourage research with outcomes relevant to multiple species and/or One Health approaches that incorporate transdisciplinary research relevant to animals, humans and the environment.
-
Urban Food Systems: Elucidation of connections between urban food systems and the urban environment, in addition to the connections between rural and urban communities to improve food and nutritional security, human health outcomes, economic opportunities, and food system resiliency through transdisciplinary partnerships.
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Health-Agriculture Nexus: Systems–level approaches (both technological and non– technological) aimed at reducing food and nutritional insecurity and improving human health in the United States and worldwide.
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AgMission: Innovative research and integrated data systems to advance knowledge and adoption of Climate–Smart Agriculture practices, focusing on co–design with agricultural stakeholders and understanding enabling conditions for systems–level change.
https://foundationfar.org/seeding-solutions/
Due Date: June 28, 2023
Sustainable agricultural and food systems research fellowships
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, within the framework of its cooperative research programme, invites applications for its sustainable agricultural and food systems research fellowships. These enable scientists working in agriculture, forestry or fisheries to conduct research projects abroad. The main aim of the programme is to strengthen scientific knowledge and provide relevant scientific information and advice that will inform future policy decisions related to the sustainable use of natural resources in food, agriculture, forests and fisheries. Applications that fall under the following areas are particularly welcome:
•sustainable productivity growth and food security and nutrition;
•new technologies and practices for food production; Food loss and waste;
•antimicrobial resistance - one health approach to agriculture and food systems;
•innovations in the transfer and development of agricultural knowledge, including Indigenous and traditional knowledge;
•digital technologies and digitalisation;
•climate change, including pathways to net zero, carbon sequestration in agriculture, forestry and land use, water use;
•plant and animal breeding to enhance sustainable productivity growth and resilience to climatic events - diversity of crop production;
•fisheries and aquaculture productivity, sustainability and resilience.
http://www.oecd.org/agriculture/crp/applications/
Due Date: September 10, 2023
NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
The NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences recognizes research by a mid-career scientist who has made an extraordinary contribution to agriculture or to the understanding of the biology of a species fundamentally important to agriculture or food production. For the purpose of the prize, areas of science with applications to agriculture include plant and animal sciences, microbiology, nutrition and food science, soil science, entomology, veterinary medicine, and agricultural economics.
http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/food-and-agriculture.html
Due Date: October 3, 2023
The Earth Institute Postdoctoral Research program is the premier program in the world for those dedicated to a better understanding of critical scientific and social issues in global sustainable development. Earth Institute Postdoctoral Researchers will join multidisciplinary teams of outstanding, committed scientists from across the Earth Institute and Columbia University.
The program provides innovative postdoctoral scholars with the opportunity to build a foundation in one of the core disciplines represented within the Earth Institute (i.e. social, earth, biological, engineering, and health sciences), while at the same time acquiring the breadth of cross-disciplinary expertise needed to address critical issues related to sustainable development. Specific areas of research include food security, energy systems, climate change impacts, poverty reduction, disease, and environmental degradation. The program offers a unique intellectual surrounding that fosters cross-disciplinary interaction, research and education.
https://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/55
Due Date: October 31, 2023
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative- Foundational and Applied Science Program
The AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture. The six priority areas are: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities. Research-only, extension-only, and integrated research, education and/or extension projects are solicited in this Request for Applications (RFA). See Foundational and Applied Science RFA for specific detail.
Due Date: December 29, 2023
Microbes and communities of microbes have remarkable genetic, physiological and biochemical diversity, allowing them to flourish in environments all over the planet and in a variety of substrates and hosts. Given their relative importance to ecosystems around the world, to the economy and to health, researchers have studied microbial systems extensively and have a better understanding of their capabilities and impacts on hosts and the environment. In recent years, researchers have increasingly turned to microbes and their diverse capabilities for bio-remediation and applications in biotechnology, agriculture, and medicine. Because of advances in molecular biology, synthetic biology and bioengineering, researchers now have the ability to assemble synthetic microbial communities that have novel compositions, genetics and phenotypes and to use these communities to address both fundamental biological questions and a range of societal problems. The goal of this solicitation is to support research that addresses one or more of the three themes: 1) define the underlying mechanisms or rules that drive the formation, maintenance or evolution of synthetic microbial communities, 2) use synthetic microbial communities to address fundamental biological questions, including questions in molecular biology, cellular/organismal biology, ecology and evolution and/or 3) build synthetic communities with biotechnology, bio-economy or environmental engineering applications, including but not limited to the production of novel bio-renewable chemicals, bio-degradation of recalcitrant or "forever chemicals," enabling a circular bio-economy, fostering sustainable agriculture and mitigating the impacts of climate change. For theme 3, the emphasis should be on designing communities with novel capabilities and understanding the underlying mechanisms that lead to these novel capabilities.
https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf22607
Due Date: August 1, 2024
Plant Breeding
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), Seeding Solutions, Health Agriculture Nexus
https://foundationfar.org/what-we-do/challenge-areas/health-agriculture-nexus/
The Health-Agriculture Nexus Challenge Area supports pioneering research to reduce food and nutrition insecurity, decrease food waste and loss and improve human health.
Research focuses on:
-
Increasing access to healthy food
-
Reducing and redirecting food loss and waste
-
Advancing plant and animal production systems
-
Breeding better nutrition
-
Improving processing and packaging technologies
-
Predicting supply and demand for crops and food animals
Lots of open opportunities: https://foundationfar.org/grants-funding/open-opportunities/
Due Date: Depends on Opportunity
New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award
The New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award provides early-career scientists the investment needed to propel them into successful research careers. Young faculty in the sciences often struggle to secure grant funding. We established the New Innovator Awards to launch the careers of promising scientists whose research addresses significant food and agriculture challenges. These awards allow the grantees to focus exclusively on research without the pressure of securing additional funding.
https://foundationfar.org/grants-funding/opportunities/new-innovators-request-for-applications/
Due Date: May 3, 2023
Western SARE: Research & Education 2024 Call for Pre-proposals
This program involves scientists, agricultural producers, and others using interdisciplinary approaches to advance sustainable agriculture at local and regional levels. With the collaboration of producers, projects must integrate rigorous research and education aiming to advance the three components of sustainable agriculture- environmental, economic, and social- and use innovative educational outreach to disseminate new knowledge to students, producers, and stakeholders. It is expected that outcomes of funded projects will result in quantifiable benefits for producers, increase the preservation of the natural resources upon which agriculture depends, and be documented in scholarly journals and disseminated through teaching and educational activities with students, producers, and other agricultural stakeholders.
https://www.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/RE_Pre-proposals-2024.pdf
Due Date: May 23, 2023, 12:00pm MST
Seeding Solutions encourages the development of unique partnerships that support innovative and transformative research focused on one of our Challenge Areas or AgMission.
To be considered, applications must address and provide solutions to an intractable problem and/or accelerate innovation within FFAR’s Challenge Areas or AgMission.
-
Soil Health: Advanced understanding of what soil health is, how it is measured and how to manage and optimize the sustainable delivery of the ecosystem services which soils provide.
-
Sustainable Water Management: Interdisciplinary, model–based research to enhance terrestrial water quality and supplies and minimize linked environmental impacts while maximizing crop production through increased adoption of strategically placed and designed agricultural water management practices.
-
Next Generation Crops: Advanced breeding methods and development of biotic and abiotic stress tolerance for crops grown in organic and conventional cropping systems to increase farmer profitability and environmental resilience.
-
Advanced Animal Systems: Improved animal health, welfare and productivity, antibiotic stewardship, and environmental sustainability. We particularly encourage research with outcomes relevant to multiple species and/or One Health approaches that incorporate transdisciplinary research relevant to animals, humans and the environment.
-
Urban Food Systems: Elucidation of connections between urban food systems and the urban environment, in addition to the connections between rural and urban communities to improve food and nutritional security, human health outcomes, economic opportunities, and food system resiliency through transdisciplinary partnerships.
-
Health-Agriculture Nexus: Systems–level approaches (both technological and non– technological) aimed at reducing food and nutritional insecurity and improving human health in the United States and worldwide.
-
AgMission: Innovative research and integrated data systems to advance knowledge and adoption of Climate–Smart Agriculture practices, focusing on co–design with agricultural stakeholders and understanding enabling conditions for systems–level change.
https://foundationfar.org/seeding-solutions/
Due Date: June 28, 2023
Sustainable agricultural and food systems research fellowships
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, within the framework of its cooperative research programme, invites applications for its sustainable agricultural and food systems research fellowships. These enable scientists working in agriculture, forestry or fisheries to conduct research projects abroad. The main aim of the programme is to strengthen scientific knowledge and provide relevant scientific information and advice that will inform future policy decisions related to the sustainable use of natural resources in food, agriculture, forests and fisheries. Applications that fall under the following areas are particularly welcome:
•sustainable productivity growth and food security and nutrition;
•new technologies and practices for food production; Food loss and waste;
•antimicrobial resistance - one health approach to agriculture and food systems;
•innovations in the transfer and development of agricultural knowledge, including Indigenous and traditional knowledge;
•digital technologies and digitalisation;
•climate change, including pathways to net zero, carbon sequestration in agriculture, forestry and land use, water use;
•plant and animal breeding to enhance sustainable productivity growth and resilience to climatic events - diversity of crop production;
•fisheries and aquaculture productivity, sustainability and resilience.
http://www.oecd.org/agriculture/crp/applications/
Due Date: September 10, 2023
NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
The NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences recognizes research by a mid-career scientist who has made an extraordinary contribution to agriculture or to the understanding of the biology of a species fundamentally important to agriculture or food production. For the purpose of the prize, areas of science with applications to agriculture include plant and animal sciences, microbiology, nutrition and food science, soil science, entomology, veterinary medicine, and agricultural economics.
http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/food-and-agriculture.html
Due Date: October 3, 2023
The Earth Institute Postdoctoral Research program is the premier program in the world for those dedicated to a better understanding of critical scientific and social issues in global sustainable development. Earth Institute Postdoctoral Researchers will join multidisciplinary teams of outstanding, committed scientists from across the Earth Institute and Columbia University.
The program provides innovative postdoctoral scholars with the opportunity to build a foundation in one of the core disciplines represented within the Earth Institute (i.e. social, earth, biological, engineering, and health sciences), while at the same time acquiring the breadth of cross-disciplinary expertise needed to address critical issues related to sustainable development. Specific areas of research include food security, energy systems, climate change impacts, poverty reduction, disease, and environmental degradation. The program offers a unique intellectual surrounding that fosters cross-disciplinary interaction, research and education.
https://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/55
Due Date: October 31, 2023
Grants4Ag: Improving resilience of local varieties through genome editing
Bayer, under Bayer Crop Science, invites submissions for its grants4ag: improving resilience of local varieties through genome editing opportunity. This supports projects that use genome editing to overcome limiting factors in the cultivation of local crop varieties and niche or orphan crops that may contribute to the sustainable food systems. Specifically, ideas or proof of concepts are sought that use genome editing in benefit of local varieties, particularly those regarded as "orphan" or "research-neglected, in Europe and Africa.
Principal investigators, postdocs, PhD students, startup companies, and other non-university entrepreneurs and researchers in any country are eligible to submit proposals. Scientists should have access to a lab to conduct the research they are proposing.
Funding typically ranges from USD 5,000 to USD 15,000 per proposal. Access to chemical libraries, DNA sequences and screening technologies will be provided on a case by case basis.
Due Date: November 30, 2023
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative- Foundational and Applied Science Program
The AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture. The six priority areas are: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities. Research-only, extension-only, and integrated research, education and/or extension projects are solicited in this Request for Applications (RFA). See Foundational and Applied Science RFA for specific detail.
Due Date: December 29, 2023
Food Science
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), Seeding Solutions, Health Agriculture Nexus
https://foundationfar.org/what-we-do/challenge-areas/health-agriculture-nexus/
The Health-Agriculture Nexus Challenge Area supports pioneering research to reduce food and nutrition insecurity, decrease food waste and loss and improve human health.
Research focuses on:
-
Increasing access to healthy food
-
Reducing and redirecting food loss and waste
-
Advancing plant and animal production systems
-
Breeding better nutrition
-
Improving processing and packaging technologies
-
Predicting supply and demand for crops and food animals
Lots of open opportunities: https://foundationfar.org/grants-funding/open-opportunities/
Due Date: Depends on Opportunity
New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award
The New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award provides early-career scientists the investment needed to propel them into successful research careers. Young faculty in the sciences often struggle to secure grant funding. We established the New Innovator Awards to launch the careers of promising scientists whose research addresses significant food and agriculture challenges. These awards allow the grantees to focus exclusively on research without the pressure of securing additional funding.
https://foundationfar.org/grants-funding/opportunities/new-innovators-request-for-applications/
Due Date: May 3, 2023
Scientific Cooperation Research Program (SCRP)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Fellowship Programs, announces this funding opportunity to support the Scientific Cooperation and Research Program (SCRP) by issuing new awards. This opportunity is available to State cooperative institutions or other colleges and universities in the United States, as defined at 7 USC 3103. In addition, applicants must be former Mentors and Fellows from USDA/FAS’s Borlaug International Agricultural Technology Fellowship Program with an ongoing collaboration. This program is intended to support applied research, extension, and education collaborations between U.S. researchers and their foreign counterparts from selected emerging market economies.
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=346675
Due Date: May 10, 2023
Seeding Solutions encourages the development of unique partnerships that support innovative and transformative research focused on one of our Challenge Areas or AgMission.
To be considered, applications must address and provide solutions to an intractable problem and/or accelerate innovation within FFAR’s Challenge Areas or AgMission.
-
Soil Health: Advanced understanding of what soil health is, how it is measured and how to manage and optimize the sustainable delivery of the ecosystem services which soils provide.
-
Sustainable Water Management: Interdisciplinary, model–based research to enhance terrestrial water quality and supplies and minimize linked environmental impacts while maximizing crop production through increased adoption of strategically placed and designed agricultural water management practices.
-
Next Generation Crops: Advanced breeding methods and development of biotic and abiotic stress tolerance for crops grown in organic and conventional cropping systems to increase farmer profitability and environmental resilience.
-
Advanced Animal Systems: Improved animal health, welfare and productivity, antibiotic stewardship, and environmental sustainability. We particularly encourage research with outcomes relevant to multiple species and/or One Health approaches that incorporate transdisciplinary research relevant to animals, humans and the environment.
-
Urban Food Systems: Elucidation of connections between urban food systems and the urban environment, in addition to the connections between rural and urban communities to improve food and nutritional security, human health outcomes, economic opportunities, and food system resiliency through transdisciplinary partnerships.
-
Health-Agriculture Nexus: Systems–level approaches (both technological and non– technological) aimed at reducing food and nutritional insecurity and improving human health in the United States and worldwide.
-
AgMission: Innovative research and integrated data systems to advance knowledge and adoption of Climate–Smart Agriculture practices, focusing on co–design with agricultural stakeholders and understanding enabling conditions for systems–level change.
https://foundationfar.org/seeding-solutions/
Due Date: June 28, 2023
EIT Food - food innovator fellowship
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology invites applications for its food innovator fellowship. This fosters innovators who are ready to respond to global challenges in the agri-food systems and allows them to transform a lab-idea into a business idea through training and events.
https://apply.eitfood.eu/en_GB/courses/course/145-eit-food-innovator-fellowship-202324?search=50862
Due Date: June 30, 2023
NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
The NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences recognizes research by a mid-career scientist who has made an extraordinary contribution to agriculture or to the understanding of the biology of a species fundamentally important to agriculture or food production. For the purpose of the prize, areas of science with applications to agriculture include plant and animal sciences, microbiology, nutrition and food science, soil science, entomology, veterinary medicine, and agricultural economics.
http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/food-and-agriculture.html
Due Date: October 3, 2023
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is America’s flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences. In this RFA, NIFA requests applications for the six AFRI priority areas through the Foundational and Applied Science Program for 2023-2024. The goal of this program is to invest in agricultural production research, education, and extension projects for more sustainable, productive, and economically-viable plant and animal production systems. The global agricultural output needs to be expanded significantly to meet the food needs of the population expected in 2050; thus, it is imperative to develop innovative, safe, and sustainable management strategies for livestock (including poultry and aquaculture species), crops, and critical underlying resources. Applications that address climate change, food and nutrition security, expanding markets for producers, indigenous traditional ecological knowledge, and equity for underserved producers are welcome. Also welcome are applications that incorporate virtual learning options, where appropriate and practical for integrated programs.
In 2023, applications are sought in the following priority areas:
1. Plant health and production and plant products;
2. Animal health and production and animal products;
3. Food safety, nutrition, and health;
4. Bioenergy, natural resources, and environment;
5. Agriculture systems and technology; and
6. Agriculture economics and rural communities
Due Date: December 29, 2023
Dr. Elwood F. Caldwell Graduate Fellowship
The fellowship is for students currently enrolled in a master’s or doctoral program in the science of food and will provide a generous stipend to students pursuing research focused on addressing the current and future needs and demands of the global food system.
Created through a $1 million bequest from his estate, Dr. Caldwell believed strongly in Feeding Tomorrow’s mission and that students in the science of food should be encouraged and fostered to pursue their own research.
https://www.ift.org/community/students/fellowships
Due Date: December 30, 2023
Feeding Tomorrow Scholarships: Graduate Scholarships
The Feeding Tomorrow Fund awards annual scholarships to students pursuing a graduate degree in a variety of disciplines within the science of food.
The following scholarships are available
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FT Sensory and Consumer Sciences Division Silver Celebration PhD Degree Scholarship
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IFT Sensory and Consumer Sciences Division Silver Celebration MS Scholarship
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Mike Jimenez Scholarship Sponsored by the IFT International Division
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Dr. Richard L. Hall Scholarship in Flavor Science
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Edlong Scholarship
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Gerber Endowment in Pediatric Nutrition for Thermal Processing Specialists PhD Degree Scholarship
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Institute for Thermal Processing Specialists MS Degree Scholarship
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The Feeding Tomorrow Fund General Graduate Scholarship
NEW to 2023: Scholarship awards will be granted from the Feeding Tomorrow Fund to graduate students with the greatest financial need; multiple awards available at $3,000 each.
http://www.ift.org/community/students/scholarships/graduate-scholarships.aspx
Due Date: April 14, 2024
Feeding Tomorrow Scholarships: Undergraduate Scholarships
The Feeding Tomorrow Fund awards annual scholarships to students pursuing an undergraduate degree in a variety of disciplines within the science of food.
Available Scholarships:
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IFT Food Engineering Division Scholarship
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IFT Sensory and Consumer Science Division Scholarship
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Institute for Thermal Processing Specialists – Irving Pflug Memorial Scholarship
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Edlong Scholarship
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Barbara B. Keenan Scholarship
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McCormick & Company Scholarship
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Evan Turek Memorial Scholarship
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Dr. Ann C. Hollingsworth Student Leadership Scholarship
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Feeding Tomorrow Fund General Undergraduate Scholarship
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Feeding Tomorrow Fund Gateway Scholarship
NEW to 2023: Scholarship awards will be granted from the Feeding Tomorrow Fund to students with the greatest financial need; students transferring from a community college; students who are first-generation to attend college; and international students; multiple awards available for each category and are $2,000 each).
https://www.ift.org/community/students/scholarships
Due Date: April 14, 2024
Graduate Research Video Competition
Showcase your graduate research in a creative and concise way! Interested students will submit a fun, creative, three-minute video related to original research being conducted by the student during their graduate studies. The research can be on any subject related to food science or technology.
Students will submit a personal statement explaining why they should be chosen to visit competition sponsor Campden BRI in the United Kingdom, and the different ways they plan to capture their experience through various social media channels.
https://www.ift.org/community/students/competitions-and-awards/graduate-research-video-competition
Due Date: April 15, 2024
Nutrition and Human Health/Population and Social Science
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), Seeding Solutions, Health Agriculture Nexus
https://foundationfar.org/what-we-do/challenge-areas/health-agriculture-nexus/
The Health-Agriculture Nexus Challenge Area supports pioneering research to reduce food and nutrition insecurity, decrease food waste and loss and improve human health.
Research focuses on:
-
Increasing access to healthy food
-
Reducing and redirecting food loss and waste
-
Advancing plant and animal production systems
-
Breeding better nutrition
-
Improving processing and packaging technologies
-
Predicting supply and demand for crops and food animals
Lots of open opportunities: https://foundationfar.org/grants-funding/open-opportunities/
Due Date: Depends on Opportunity
Western SARE: Research & Education 2024 Call for Pre-proposals
This program involves scientists, agricultural producers, and others using interdisciplinary approaches to advance sustainable agriculture at local and regional levels. With the collaboration of producers, projects must integrate rigorous research and education aiming to advance the three components of sustainable agriculture- environmental, economic, and social- and use innovative educational outreach to disseminate new knowledge to students, producers, and stakeholders. It is expected that outcomes of funded projects will result in quantifiable benefits for producers, increase the preservation of the natural resources upon which agriculture depends, and be documented in scholarly journals and disseminated through teaching and educational activities with students, producers, and other agricultural stakeholders.
https://www.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/RE_Pre-proposals-2024.pdf
Due Date: May 23, 2023, 12:00pm MST
Healthy Eating Research (HER) is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) committed to building a Culture of Health through identifying effective strategies to improve children’s nutrition and weight. HER’s mission is to support and disseminate research on policy, systems, and environmental strategies that promote healthy eating among children and advance nutrition security and health equity. Some goals of the program are to: build a vibrant, inclusive, interdisciplinary research base in the areas of healthy food access, nutrition security, diet quality, and healthy weight; and communicate research findings to accelerate policy, systems, and environmental changes. HER issues calls for proposals (CFPs) to solicit scientifically rigorous, solution-oriented proposals from investigators representing diverse disciplines and backgrounds.
Access to affordable, nutritious, culturally appropriate food should be a human right. All families in the U.S. should be able to provide their children with nutritious foods that support optimal growth and development.
Healthy Eating Research supports this goal through improving diet quality and nutrition for all Americans.
Due Date: July 12, 2023
The Earth Institute Postdoctoral Research program is the premier program in the world for those dedicated to a better understanding of critical scientific and social issues in global sustainable development. Earth Institute Postdoctoral Researchers will join multidisciplinary teams of outstanding, committed scientists from across the Earth Institute and Columbia University.
The program provides innovative postdoctoral scholars with the opportunity to build a foundation in one of the core disciplines represented within the Earth Institute (i.e. social, earth, biological, engineering, and health sciences), while at the same time acquiring the breadth of cross-disciplinary expertise needed to address critical issues related to sustainable development. Specific areas of research include food security, energy systems, climate change impacts, poverty reduction, disease, and environmental degradation. The program offers a unique intellectual surrounding that fosters cross-disciplinary interaction, research and education.
https://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/55
Due Date: October 31, 2023
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is America’s flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences. In this RFA, NIFA requests applications for the six AFRI priority areas through the Foundational and Applied Science Program for 2023-2024. The goal of this program is to invest in agricultural production research, education, and extension projects for more sustainable, productive, and economically-viable plant and animal production systems. The global agricultural output needs to be expanded significantly to meet the food needs of the population expected in 2050; thus, it is imperative to develop innovative, safe, and sustainable management strategies for livestock (including poultry and aquaculture species), crops, and critical underlying resources. Applications that address climate change, food and nutrition security, expanding markets for producers, indigenous traditional ecological knowledge, and equity for underserved producers are welcome. Also welcome are applications that incorporate virtual learning options, where appropriate and practical for integrated programs. In 2023, applications are sought in the following priority areas: 1. Plant health and production and plant products; 2. Animal health and production and animal products; 3. Food safety, nutrition, and health; 4. Bioenergy, natural resources, and environment; 5. Agriculture systems and technology; and 6. Agriculture economics and rural communities.
The amount available for the AFRI Foundational and Applied Science (FAS) RFA in FY 2023 is approximately $300,000,000. For 2023, funding from FY 2024 appropriations will be used. The amount available to support the AFRI program is approximately $407,000,000, of which $300 million will be used to support AFRI FAS programs.
https://www.nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/FY23-AFRI-FAS-RFA-508_0.pdf
Due Date: December 29, 2023
Susan T. Borra Advancing Food and Nutrition Communications Fellowship Award
This award supports deserving individuals in enhancing their capabilities and experience in the area of nutrition communications in a food environment (e.g. food and beverage companies, commodity groups, trade associations, public relations and marketing firms, etc.).
The award recipient will be matched to one of their preferred choices for a short-term fellowship at that organization.
https://www.eatrightfoundation.org/foundation/apply-for-funding/awards
Due Date: February 21, 2024
Agricultural Education
Western SARE Research and Education Grant
The Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program announces the Call for Preproposals for Research & Education grants. With a Research and Education grant, a researcher and at least three (3) Producers work together to develop a proposal to conduct both research and education on a sustainable agriculture topic. Outreach activities may include on-farm/ranch demonstrations, farmer-to-farmer educational activities, and other approaches to assist producer adoption of sustainable agricultural practices. The goal of this program is to achieve results that can be communicated to producers and professionals; sustain and improve the environmental quality and natural resource base on which agriculture depends; improve the profitability of farmers/ranchers and associated agricultural businesses; and enhance the quality of life for farmers/ranchers in their local communities.
https://pivot.proquest.com/funding_opps/5e74cbad-ed12-47d6-855c-d1d75de8f0f3
Due Date: August 15, 2023