FOA-FFAR – Climate Resilience RFA; November 11, 2020

 

Agency:

Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)

 

Description:

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) is seeking applications through our Next Generation Crops Challenge Area. FFAR builds unique partnerships to support innovative and actionable science addressing today’s food and agriculture challenges. We are seeking innovative research focused on improving climate resilience in crops to provide the critical solutions necessary to enhance the sustainable production of nutritious food for a growing global population.

 

FFAR aims to support research that addresses the challenge of rising global temperatures by increasing the basal or acquired thermotolerance of crop plants. In accordance with the above intent, the successful research will be applicable to one or more of the following crop species: maize, rice, sorghum, millet, wheat, sweet potato, cassava, banana, yam, common bean, cowpea, chickpea or groundnut. We will also consider research in other plants, if applicants adequately describe how the proposed research would be transferable to the preferred crops. Potential solutions only applicable to agricultural systems in high-income countries or involving domestication of new crops will not be considered.

 

FFAR would consider:

 

1. Approaches that quantify the specific features of climate-driven temperature change that will most impact crop plants.  This may include development or improvement of biophysical crop simulation/predictive models;
2. Solutions that address higher temperatures in day and/or night periods;
3. Solutions that address increased temperature variability;
4. Solutions that could be applied in crop genetic improvement programs;
5. Solutions that address the challenges of phenotyping for variation in thermotolerance, including the impact of acclimation;
6. Solutions that address temperature response in crop plants, including molecular, enzymatic, physiological, and/or genetic approaches;
7. Solutions developed in model plant systems that can be applied to one or more of the above crops;
8. Solutions that can be reasonably applied in agricultural systems in low income countries.

 

Closing Date:

November 11, 2020

 

Link to Full Announcement:

https://foundationfar.org/climate-resilience-rfa/

 

Contact Information:

grants@foundationfar.org