Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational Program: Agriculture Systems and Technology

This program's interdisciplinary nature provides a nexus for both discovery and applied science and puts a greater emphasis on the interrelationships between system components and the distinct disciplines that often address those individual elements. Disciplines such as engineering, agricultural economics, chemistry, microbiology, soil science, animal and plant sciences, veterinary medicine, genetics, social sciences, behavioral sciences, food safety, physics, physical and biological sciences, materials science, toxicology, and others are needed. By blending basic and translational physical sciences with natural and social science disciplines, this approach develops the next generation of engineered systems, products, and processes that will be critical to U.S. and global agriculture and food production. Single-function Research Projects and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants are expected to address one of the Program Area Priorities of the Agriculture Systems and Technology 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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