The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is
the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA’s) flagship competitive
grants programs for food and agricultural sciences, and funding is offered
through the Foundational and Applied Science, Sustainable Agricultural Systems,
and Education and Workforce Development Requests for Applications for
addressing critical societal issues.
The purpose of AFRI is to support research,
education, and extension work by awarding grants to solve key problems of
local, regional, national, and global importance in sustaining conventional,
organic, and urban agricultural systems.
Program Areas
The Foundational and
Applied Science RFA program areas address the following priorities as well as
all included subpriorities:
- 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;
- Agriculture
Economics and Rural Communities.
Program Area Priorities
Each application must
address at least one of the six program area priorities listed below:
- Foundational
Knowledge of Agricultural Production Systems
- Foundational
Knowledge of Plant Products
- Pests
and Beneficial Species in Agricultural Production Systems
- Physiology
of Agricultural Plants
- Plant
Breeding for Agricultural Production
- Pollinator
Health: Research and Application
Funding Information
The anticipated amount
available for new grants for the 2022 deadlines in this Foundational and
Applied Science RFA is approximately $290 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility
is linked to the project type as specified below:
- Research,
Education or Extension Projects Eligible applicants for single-function
Research, Education or Extension Projects include:
- State
Agricultural Experiment Station;
- colleges
and universities (including junior colleges offering associate degrees
or higher);
- university
research foundations;
- other
research institutions and organizations;
- Federal
agencies;
- national
laboratories;
- private
organizations or corporations;
- individuals
who are U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents;
- any
group consisting of two or more entities identified in a) through h).
Eligible institutions do not include foreign and international
organizations.
- Integrated Projects
- Eligible
applicants for Integrated Projects include:
- colleges
and universities;
- 1994
Land-Grant Institutions;
- Hispanic-serving
agricultural colleges and universities.
- For
item under Integrated Projects, the terms "college" and
"university" mean an educational institution in any state
which:
- admits
as regular students only persons having a certificate of graduation from
a school providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent of
such a certificate;
- is
legally authorized within such state to provide a program of education
beyond secondary education;
- provides
an educational program for which a bachelor’s degree or any other higher
degree is awarded;
- is
a public or other nonprofit institution;
- is
accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association.
- A
research foundation maintained by a college or university is eligible to
receive an award under this program.
Post Date - 20-Jul-2020