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Urban, Indoor, and Emerging Agriculture
Description:
The Urban, Indoor, and Emerging Agriculture (UIE) program supports research, education, and extension work by awarding grants to solve key problems of local, regional, and national importance that facilitate development of urban, indoor, and emerging agricultural systems.
The program
includes food value chain stages:
production, harvesting, transportation, aggregation, packaging, distribution, and markets.
The Urban, Indoor, and Emerging Agriculture (UIE) program supports research, education, and extension work by awarding grants to solve key problems of local, regional, and national importance that facilitate development of urban, indoor, and emerging agricultural systems.
The program
includes food value chain stages:
production, harvesting, transportation, aggregation, packaging, distribution, and markets.
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Office: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Estimated Funding: $9,400,000
Office: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Estimated Funding: $9,400,000
Who's Eligible
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Urban, Indoor, and Emerging Agriculture
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Eligible entities Applications may only be submitted by the following entities: (A) State agricultural experiment stations; (B) colleges and universities; (C) university research foundations; (D) other research institutions and organizations; (E) Federal agencies; (F) national laboratories; (G) private organizations, foundations, or corporations; (H) individuals; or (I) any group consisting of two or more of the entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (H).
Award recipients may subcontract to organizations not eligible to apply provided such organizations are necessary for the conduct of the project.
Applicants for the UIE RFA must meet all the requirements discussed in this RFA.
Failure to meet the eligibility criteria by the application deadline may result in exclusion from consideration or, preclude NIFA from making an award.
For those new to Federal financial assistance, NIFA’s Grants Overview provides highly recommended information about grants and other resources to help understand the Federal awards process.
Duplicate or Multiple Submissions – duplicate or multiple submissions (by the same team and on the same objectives) are not allowed.
NIFA will disqualify both applications if an applicant submits duplicate or multiple submissions.
For those new to Federal financial assistance, NIFA’s Grants Overview provides highly recommended information about grants and other resources to help understand the Federal awards process.
Other Funding Opportunities – The NIFA Urban, Indoor, and Emerging Agriculture web page https://nifa.usda.gov/program/uie-ag links to other NIFA competitive programs that support urban agriculture.
Please review this website and consider applying to one of these programs that may be a better fit for your proposed research, education, or extension project.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/funding-opportunities/urban-indoor-emerging-agriculture
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Date Posted:
2022-06-07
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Archive Date:
2022-10-22
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