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SUMMARY:AFRI - FAS  Rural Economic Development (A1661)
DESCRIPTION:Program Area Priority: This program area priority supports rigorous theoretical and empirical efforts to create and examine innovative approaches for advancing economic opportunities for rural entrepreneurs and communities\, with an aim to promote rural prosperity and well-being. The intent of the program area priority is to improve the understanding of the factors and conditions that enhance economic opportunities for food\, agricultural and rural businesses through tools and methods from the various social sciences\, (i.e.\, sociology\, demography\, economics\, geography\, etc.). Studies that focus on women\, and ethnic and/or racial minority groups are of interest. \nProjects can be either integrated (to include extension and/or education\, along with research) or research only. Projects may evaluate the institutional\, social\, or economic factors affecting decision making and policy development to enhance the economic growth and well-being of rural communities. \nThis program area priority focuses mainly on entrepreneurs\, small businesses\, and other locallevel employers and services who are important sources of employment\, and/or on other issues “beyond the farm gate.”
URL:https://cahnrs.wsu.edu/research/proposal_deadlines/afri-fas-rural-economic-development-a1661/
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SUMMARY:AFRI - FAS  Nanotechnology for Agricultural and Food Systems (A1511)
DESCRIPTION:Program Area Priority: Nanoscale science\, engineering\, and technology embrace opportunities in a wide range of critical challenges facing agriculture and food systems. The program encourages applications with innovative ideas\, connected to hypothesis-based fundamental sciences\, to develop nanotechnology-enabled solutions for sustainable food and nutrition security\, climate-smart agriculture\, and circular bioeconomy through the following broad areas: improved productivity and product quality; reduction of food waste/loss; improved nutritional value and efficiency of food and feed products; more effective therapies that significantly impact animal health and wellness; enhanced food safety and biosecurity; increased protection for natural resources\, the environment\, and agricultural ecosystems; reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; and improved sustainability\, health\, safety and joy of living. This program area priority includes\, but is not limited to: \na. Novel uses and high value-added products of nano-biomaterials from agricultural and forest origins for food and non-food applications. Note: Applications primarily addressing packaging\, food contact surfaces\, food safety\, agrochemicals\, environment\, health\, or other aspects of agriculture and food production will be acceptable\, whereas applications addressing how engineered nanomaterials affect nutritional or quality attributes of food are not solicited in this program. \nb. Nanotechnology-enabled smart sensors for accurate\, reliable and cost-effective early and rapid detection of pathogens\, allergens\, insects\, diseases\, chemical toxins\, and contaminants in foods\, plant and animal production systems\, water\, soil and the agricultural production environment. Nanotechnology-enabled portable\, field-deployable and affordable sensors and devices for real-time detection and screening to identify agriculturally-important targets requiring no additional laboratory analyses are welcome. \nc. Cost-effective distributed sensing networks\, in which the sensors are enabled by nanotechnology\, for intelligent and precise application of agricultural inputs (e.g.\, fertilizer\, water\, and chemicals) with the Internet of Agricultural Things (i.e.\, cyberphysical systems) and the science and tools of big data. \nd. Environmental\, health and safety assessments of engineered nanoparticles used in food and agricultural systems\, including detection and quantification of engineered nanoparticles\, characterization of hazards\, exposure levels\, transport and fate of the engineered nanoparticles or nanomaterials in foods\, crops\, soils (and soil biota)\, water\, and livestock (including aquaculture species)\, or to agricultural and allied industry workers. This may also include animal feed formulations and processes that utilize novel nanomaterials or develop new nanostructured materials or nanoparticles that are biopersistent in digestive pathways. \ne. Nanotechnology-enabled monitoring physiological biomarkers for optimal crop or animal productivity and health. \nf. Discovery and characterization of nanoscale phenomena\, processes\, and structures relevant and important to agriculture and food.
URL:https://cahnrs.wsu.edu/research/proposal_deadlines/afri-fas-nanotechnology-for-agricultural-and-food-systems-a1511/
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SUMMARY:AFRI - FAS  Environmental Justice (A1461)
DESCRIPTION:Program Area Priority: Climate change poses a significant risk to agriculture\, forests\, and rangelands across the United States. Underserved communities are especially vulnerable to climate change and researchbased understanding is needed to advance environmental justice and ensure food and nutrition security and economic opportunities for communities at risk. Applications are encouraged that advance understanding of environmental justice and use of traditional ecological knowledge (including indigenous traditional knowledge) to create a demographically diverse and representative research community. Stakeholder-informed approaches that can lead to actionable information and transformational changes are also encouraged. \nThis program area priority is soliciting applications to fund a single Standard Research Grant to better understand\, measure\, and track how NIFA’s research\, education\, extension\, and workforce development investments in clean energy\, climate change\, food and nutrition security and water programming impact underserved communities. This program is particularly focused on secondary\, or indirect\, community-level social benefits and impacts. Novel and effective approaches to tackle this challenge will be required. \nProposals are required to address all the following: \na) Developing models that leverage and complement existing geospatial approaches to environmental justice and describe multiple dimensions of the indirect and long-term effects of investments on underserved communities. \nb) Incorporating input and design principles extensively and meaningfully from underserved and indigenous communities at all stages of model development and execution.
URL:https://cahnrs.wsu.edu/research/proposal_deadlines/afri-fas-environmental-justice-a1461/
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SUMMARY:AFRI - FAS Sustainable Agroecosystems (A1451)
DESCRIPTION:Program Area Priority: This program area priority calls for research projects that focus on improvement of ecosystem health and output of ecosystem services in managed production systems (croplands\, forests\, and rangelands) that are currently under stress or at risk from climate change\, pests\, pathogens\, invasive plants\, and increased environmental pressures. This priority area calls for applied research that will advance scientific understanding of health functions\, processes and management of sustainable agroecosystems. Projects will assess responses of ecosystem health in managed systems and develop innovative management or conservation practices with a focus on ecosystem service impacts and systems resilience. Projects should have the potential for substantial improvements in ecosystem services in extensively managed agricultural systems by addressing the impacts of changes in management practices on croplands\, forest\, and rangelands at regional or national scales. Applicants may focus on the interactions among social\, cultural\, economic\, technological\, and environmental dimensions with environmental and economic dimensions. Applications using indigenous traditional ecological knowledge are welcome for this program area priority. \nTo enable development and evaluation of innovative management practices while enhancing ecosystem services\, applications must address one of the following: \na. New approaches that significantly increase ecosystem health and resilience\, particularly in response to climate change\, along with the output or value of more than one ecosystem service\, each compared with the current management system for the region. \nb. Improving connection of ecosystem health to managed system productivity\, functionality\, socioeconomic viability\, biodiversity\, sustainability and/or resilience.
URL:https://cahnrs.wsu.edu/research/proposal_deadlines/afri-fas-sustainable-agroecosystems-a1451/
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SUMMARY:AFRI - FAS Soil Health (A1401)
DESCRIPTION:Program Area Priority: Healthy soils function as a living system and sustain plant and animal productivity while providing ecosystem services such as water and air quality\, mitigating climate change\, and promoting plant\, animal and human health. Soils are the foundation of a healthy ecosystem and\, hence\, it is imperative to improve our understanding of the physical and biogeochemical interactions of soil\, the environment\, and climate\, as well as soil responses to management and amendments. This foundational knowledge will lead to the development of tools\, practices\, techniques and/or innovations for improving soil health\, sequestering soil carbon\, and strengthening the resilience and sustainability of agricultural production systems. Practices include soil-based enhancement of nutrient and water efficiencies\, carbon sequestration\, reduced inputs\, application of amendments (e.g.\, fertilizers\, manure\, and biochar)\, and a reduction in chemicals of environmental concern. Practices based on indigenous traditional ecological knowledge are also appropriate for this program area priority. The goal of the Soil Health program area priority is to support research projects that will contribute to: \na. Foundational and applied research to advance scientific understanding of soil physical and biogeochemical processes and interactions; \nb. Assessment\, development and adoption of models\, decision support tools and new climate-smart management/conservation practices that will lead to improving or maintaining soil health and productivity while maintaining or improving environmental health in a changing climate and sustainability of our natural resource base; \nc. Soil health solutions grounded in interactions between natural and human dimensions of agricultural systems with a focus on effective environmental and economic management. Proposed projects that are primarily fundamental science must explain how a better understanding of the fundamental processes will lead to adoptable management strategies to improve overall soil health and the resilience and sustainability of agricultural production systems and ecosystem services in a changing climate.
URL:https://cahnrs.wsu.edu/research/proposal_deadlines/afri-fas-soil-health-a1401/
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SUMMARY:AFRI - FAS Foundational Knowledge of Agricultural Production Systems (A1102)
DESCRIPTION:Program Area Priority: The Foundational Knowledge of Agricultural Production Systems program supports plant research to advance our knowledge for the wide range of agricultural production systems found across the rural-urban continuum\, from conventional or organic open-fields to protected built environments. Research will address critical or process-limiting dynamics that occur among and within the various management components of a production system using experimental manipulations of system components\, technological interventions\, system analyses\, modeling\, or 16 agroecological approaches. Results are expected to lead to the development of innovative sustainable solutions to challenges limiting or threatening the productivity\, profitability\, and good stewardship of natural resources\, environment\, and human capital. Projects involving the use of indigenous traditional ecological knowledge in designing agricultural systems will be appropriate for this program area priority. Also welcome are applications that incorporate virtual learning options\, where appropriate and practical for integrated programs. \nApplications must address one or more of the following (order does not indicate importance): \n\nInvestigate how multiple management components of agricultural production systems can be integrated to enhance soil-crop-atmospheric processes or resilience to various biotic and abiotic stressors including those exacerbated by climate change\, and improve product quality and/or productivity;\nDetermine how production systems\, including regenerative systems\, can alter the structure of microbial communities associated with plants\, soils\, or other growing media; the ways alterations affect functions such as plant nutrient uptake/utilization efficiency; and resilience to weeds\, insects\, diseases\, weather extremes associated with climate change\, and other stressors that influence productivity and/or product quality (including nutritional quality);\nInvestigate how changes to cropping systems\, including diversification or intensification\, affect crop performance\, soil health\, and other outcomes beneficial to system resilience; or\nConduct syntheses and meta-analyses of existing data or develop new or extend existing models to derive general principles about the function\, properties\, and performance of agricultural production systems.
URL:https://cahnrs.wsu.edu/research/proposal_deadlines/afri-fas-foundational-knowledge-of-agricultural-production-systems-a1102/
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