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Foundation for Food and Agriculture ResearchNCFAR Briefing
December 11, 2017
➢ Flexible and nimble
➢ Doubles taxpayer investment with $1 for $1 match
➢ Unique public-private partnerships
➢ Fills gaps: Funds research that isn’t being done elsewhere
➢ Stakeholder-driven: Board, Advisory Councils include leaders from academia, industry, government, NGOs, and producer and commodity groups.
The FFAR Model
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Protein Challenge
Overcoming Water Scarcity
Healthy Soils, Thriving Farms
Food Waste and Loss
Forging the Innovation
Pathway
Urban Food Systems
Making “My Plate” Your Plate
Current Challenge Areas
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Oct 23 Research Gaps for Novel and Ancient Crops: Investing in NewOpportunities in Plant Efficiency at ASA, CSSA, SSSA Meeting in Tampa
Oct 25-26 Open Source Adaptive Management Tools: From Farm Observations toLocation-Specific Soil Health Decision Support at ASA, CSSA, SSSA Meeting in Tampa
Nov 6-9 Assessing and Managing Soil Health on Rangelands and Pasture Lands at Noble Research Institute in Ardmore, Oklahoma
Nov 13 Crops and Controlled Environments at IBM in Yorktown, New York
Nov 16-17 Food Waste to Food Security: Identifying Research Gaps Across the Food System inArlington, VA
Nov 28-28 Resilient Agriculture in the 21st Century: Crop Diversity + Nutrition + New Cropping Systems in Memphis, TN
Nov 30–Dec 1 Breaking Down The Barriers: Overcoming Obstacles to InnovationAdoption Across The Food System at APLU in Washington, DC
Dec 4 Sustainable Livestock Production at NAS in Washington, DC
Convening Stakeholders
Success Stories
Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE)
➢ $45M in public-private funding for University of Illinois work to develop (at least 20%) higher-yielding staple food crops: soybean, cowpea, cassava.
Multi-Partner Consortia Model
➢ Crops of the Future: 8 partners pooling resources to accelerate crop breeding
➢ Collaborative investment in soil health (next slide), irrigation (forthcoming)
Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (ROAR)
➢ First-response research grants to prevent and mitigate new and emerging pests and pathogens.
➢ $1.7M from FFAR and partners in 2017 to combat threats to cattle, cherry, corn, wheat, and date palm industries.5
Nov-Dec Grants
Consumer Choice and Willingness to Pay for Animal Production Practices
➢ Jason Lusk, Ph.D., Purdue University economist will study consumer beliefs and willingness-to-pay for cage-free eggs and slow growth broiler chickens
➢ Funding Partners: FMI Foundation and Animal Agriculture Alliance
Seeding Solutions Grants
➢ Facial recognition tech for more precise day-old chick vaccinations (start-up)
➢ New drying process to reduce waste during processing of grains, rice, seeds (UC Davis)
➢ Open source tech to study genes responsible for drought tolerance in rice (UC Davis)
➢ Economic and ecological resilience for urban farmers (UC Berkeley) 6
Milestone for U.S. Farmers
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Awards
$9.4 Million to Improve Soil Health
Soil Health Announcement
Fed Relations
Recent Highlights
➢ Hill Day with 11 Early-Career Grantees (FFAR New Innovators): 20 meetings including with minority and majority Senate Ag Committee staff. VIDEO
➢ Briefing held with House Ag Research Caucus; attendees included co-chairs Panetta and Davis, House Senate Ag Committee staff
➢ FFAR ask remains: “Full funding.” We are working closely with Committee staff, realizing budget challenges.9
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$162
grants awarded
million invested in research(FFAR funds + match)
80+ donors and partners
By the Numbers
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Donors and Funding Partners
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Sources of Matching Funds
$- $10,000,000 $20,000,000 $30,000,000 $40,000,000 $50,000,000 $60,000,000
Academic
NGO
Foundation
Industry
Individual
Intl Govts
Projected Totals for 2016-2017
Non-Fed Govt
Trade/Commodity
Foundations
$6.5M / 6%
$260K / .2%
$26.7M / 24%
$49.8M / 44%
$12.5M / 11%
$16.4M / 15%
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Thank You
Connect with FFARwww.foundationfar.org
@FoundationFAR@RockTalking
Executive DirectorSally Rockey, [email protected]
Questions?
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