Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational Program: Renewable Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment

Healthy agroecosystems and maintenance of supporting natural resources are essential to sustained long-term productivity of agricultural goods and services. However, degradation or loss of ecosystem services (i.e., increasing water shortages and degradation, increasing soil degradation and loss, reduced biological diversity, land use changes, increasing frequency of extreme weather events) through natural or anthropogenic interventions, threatens the sustainability of U.S. agriculture. The goal of this Program Area is to fund a portfolio of research projects that improve our understanding of the linkages among processes and management actions at diverse spatial and temporal scales that will sustain agroecosystems and the supporting natural resources of those systems. Single-function Research Projects and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants are expected to address one of the Program Area Priorities of the Renewable Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment area (see Foundational Program RFA for details).

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The list above is abbreviated. Others may be eligible to apply. Please refer to Part III, A of the current Foundational Program RFA for eligibility requirements. Applications from ineligible institutions will not be reviewed.

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