Agriculture Education Grants
Agriscience and agribusiness are constantly evolving, and have raised new public interest in issues such as monocropping, genetically engineered crops, nutrition and corporate agriculture versus sustainable, local and organic agricultural enterprises. Grants that support individuals to educate or be educated in the many fields of agriculture are available through national, regional and private organizations.
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Agriscience, Agribusiness, and Ag-Ed in the K-12 Classroom Program
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This challenge grant program has two goals. Its first goal is to promote and strengthen secondary and two-year postsecondary education in agriscience and agribusiness. This is to help ensure that the U.S. has a qualified workforce to serve the food and agricultural sciences system. The second goal of the program is to promote linkages of these higher learning programs with K-12 programs in order to encourage more American children to pursue and complete a baccalaureate or higher degree in the food and agricultural sciences. Grants awarded range between $25,000 and $300,000. For more information contact Gregory Smith at the United States Department of Agriculture and reference funding opportunity number USDA-NIFA-SAECP-003355.
International Science and Education Competitive Grants Program
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These grants support efforts to enhance how well American colleges and universities can carry out international collaborative research, extension, and teaching. Awards of up to $150,000 are granted to institutions whose education programs include international lesson-sharing, foreign technology, international research partnerships, faculty exchange or international curricula content. For more information and to determine possible eligibility, contact Patricia Fulton at the United States Department of Agriculture before January 19, 2011, and reference funding opportunity number USDA-NIFA-CIP-003379.
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Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Grants
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Different grants are available according to what geographical region of the United States you´re in, as defined by the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, or SARE, program. Ask your regional office to put you on the regional mailing list for your region so that you´ll be notified of calls for proposals when they are issued. In the Southern Section, an announcement is out that Research and Education grants for projects will be accepting proposals beginning in March 2011. Your institution´s project should fall into one of the following areas: limited resource farmers; environmentally sound practices; agricultural ecosystems; marketing and economic development; organic farming systems; policy, program evaluation, and quality of life; and women in sustainable agriculture.
Federal Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture Grants
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If your organization has "a demonstrable capacity to conduct research activities to facilitate or expand promising breakthroughs in areas of the food and agricultural sciences of importance to the United States," you can apply for this special research grant. According to the NIFA website, "awards are generally limited to high priority problems of a regional or national scope."
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