Funding-Southern SARE Releases
Research & Education Grants Calls for Proposals for FY2013; June 3, 2013
By Candace Pollock
SSARE PR Coordinator
770-412-4786
GRIFFIN, Georgia -- The Southern region of the
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has released its Calls for Proposals
for the 2013 Research
& Education Grants program.
The organization is accepting pre-proposals for projects
that focus on sustainable agriculture based on a systems approach to research
that aims to understand how complex systems function as a whole, often
beginning with a conceptual model.
Download the Call for Proposal
to follow the guidelines for writing and submitting the grant application. The
deadline for submitting pre-proposals is 11:59 p.m. EST on June 3, 2013. If
selected, applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal in August.
Grants will be announced in February of 2014.
The objective of the SARE
program is to enable farmers and ranchers to move
profitably toward production systems compatible with the goal of sustainable
agriculture, including promoting good land stewardship, protecting the health
and safety of people and animals, enhancing quality of life, and strengthening
rural communities.
The
Southern region includes: Alabama,
Arkansas,
Florida,
Georgia,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
North
Carolina, Oklahoma,
South
Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas,
Virginia,
Puerto
Rico and the U.S.
Virgin Islands.
For
more information on research and education projects, completed or ongoing,
search the national SARE database.
For
more information on Southern SARE, log on to http://www.southernsare.org.