Funding-Southern SARE Research and Education Proposals; August 15, 2009

For researchers who are working toward sustainable agriculture systems

research but were not yet ready to submit a systems pre-proposal this

year, SSARE has released two additional Research and Education (R&E)

requests for proposals with submissions due August 15: R&E Planning Grants

and R&E Preliminary Research Grants.

Research and Education Planning Grants bring together

interdisciplinary, multi-institutional teams to define a project scope,

establish goals and objectives, perform literature reviews across

disciplines and do other tasks necessary for developing a systems research

preproposal. These grants will award up to $20,000 for one year’s planning

activities. Pre-proposals are not required. Obtain the call at

Research and Education Preliminary Grants conduct necessary

research that would feed into the interdisciplinary team´s objectives. It

is likely that such a missing link would be discovered during the

literature review of a Research and Education Planning Project. These

grants will award up to $50,000 for up to 2 years of project activities.

Pre-proposals are not required. Obtain the call at

To find out how these changes fit into Southern SARE´s overall funding

strategy for the future see the document Bringing Systems Research Into