#  FFAR New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award: Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline 

 



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 **January 17, 2024** 

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 **[Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research: New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award](https://harvard.communityforce.com/Funds/FundDetails.aspx?496F49596D593768464E3537506B6F754D5442315A357A5045736A794A46767432557A436D476C432B49434C4C6D73787670614B5572716E445444446B623031627A682B5872524C3174673D)  
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 17, 2024 \[deadline extended\]  
[OSP Deadline](https://fas.benchurl.com/c/l?u=107FA2AF&e=1759ECC&c=139A85&t=0&l=A8C4360B&email=i4rVmVYuB+89BnLJwJ8quvU5LaZCMlV5NyIeD9VsXLU=&seq=1) **(if selected):** January 29, 2024. Departments or areas may require additional time for proposal review and submission. Please discuss a timeline with your grants administrator.  
Anticipated\* Sponsor Deadline for Nomination Applications (if selected): February 5, 2024.  
Award Amount: **Up to $150,000 per year for a maximum of three years**  
Eligibility: This opportunity is for early career researchers. The sponsor is unlikely to prioritize applicants who have achieved a significant publication history. Applicants must:  
\- be within the first three years of their first faculty appointment (appointed on or after 8/1/2020);  
\- be within eight years of receiving their Ph.D. (no later than 8/1/2016)**

 The [New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award](https://fas.benchurl.com/c/l?u=107FACEE&e=1759ECC&c=139A85&t=0&l=A8C4360B&email=i4rVmVYuB+89BnLJwJ8quvU5LaZCMlV5NyIeD9VsXLU=&seq=1) seeks to promote the career advancement of highly creative and promising new scientists who intend to make a long-term career commitment to research in food and agriculture and bring innovative, ground-breaking research initiatives and thinking to bear on problems facing food and agriculture. Within the scope of the New Innovator Program, investigators will have the freedom to explore new avenues of inquiry that arise during their research. Therefore, FFAR is interested in the program of research to be explored and its impact as opposed to a list of very specific aims. It is expected that through this program investigators will have the ability to pursue highly creative ideas, firmly establish their early lines of research into important food and agriculture scientific areas and provide stability in funding during their critical early career years by reducing the time spent on writing applications.

 Eligible candidates must conduct research that aligns with the [FFAR Challenge Areas](https://fas.benchurl.com/c/l?u=107FACEF&e=1759ECC&c=139A85&t=0&l=A8C4360B&email=i4rVmVYuB+89BnLJwJ8quvU5LaZCMlV5NyIeD9VsXLU=&seq=1):

- Soil Health: Resiliency and adaptation; site-specific decision making; farmer wellbeing; novel pathways to adoption
- Sustainable Water Management: Characterizing threats to ground and surface water; developing cost-effective technology to mitigate threats; advancing models to improve decision support and management under changing climate conditions; increasing stakeholder adoption of conservation water management practices; integrating long-term water monitoring programs and new research projects to improve agricultural management
- Next Generation Crops: Crop diversification; crop resiliency; accelerated breeding methodologies; advancing novel, nutritious, profitable and resilient farm crops.
- Advanced Animal Systems: Animal health and welfare; antibiotic stewardship; environmental sustainability; pest and disease management; producer stewardship and viability; public health
- Urban Food Systems: Economically viable production systems; production practices in and across food and social networks; systems-level solutions to food and nutritional insecurity; urban resource management
- Health-Agriculture Nexus: Increasing access to healthy food; reducing and redirecting food loss and waste; advancing plant and animal production systems; breeding better nutrition; improving processing and packaging technologies; predicting supply and demand for crops and food animals

 *\** In anticipation of the upcoming application cycle, confirmed by the sponsor, The Office of the Vice Provost for Research has opened an internal application. The information requested and the internal timeline are subject to change once an updated RFP is made available. Please contact [VPR@harvard.edu](mailto:vpr@harvard.edu) with any questions related to the application portal.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Grant Notifications and Deadlines ](/taxonomy/term/16141)
- [ Limited Competitions ](/funding-competition-type/limited-competitions)
 
 

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