FFAR New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award: Harvard Internal Pre-Proposal Deadline

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research: New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award
Harvard Internal Pre-Proposal Deadline: February 5, 2023
Award Amount: Up to $150,000 per year for a maximum of three years

The New Innovator Award seeks to promote 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. To be eligible, the applicant must have been appointed to their first faculty appointment on or after August 1, 2019, and received their PhD on or after August 1, 2015. Eligible candidates must also conduct research that aligns with the FFAR Challenge Areas:

• 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

This is a limited submission opportunity, and Harvard University is limited to submitting one nomination for consideration of this award. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research is facilitating an internal application, review, and selection process. Interested and eligible applicants must submit an internal pre-proposal at the link above no later than February 5, 2023.