The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is reaching out to eligible national and state commodity boards and marketing orders to propose topics for research under its FY 2018 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program.
This is the third year that NIFA has implemented the 2014 Farm Bill commodity board provision, which is enhancing collaboration between the agency and commodity groups as well as leveraging additional funds for critical research in areas of common interest. Proposed topics may be chosen for inclusion under a specific program area priority of an AFRI Request for Applications (RFA).
A Federal Register Notice entitled "Solicitation of Commodity Board Topics and Contribution of Funding Under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program," published May 26, solicits topics from eligible commodity board entities (federal and state-level commodity boards, as defined in the notice). Commodity boards must submit topics that relate to established priority areas of AFRI by 5:00 p.m. EDT on July 25 for consideration in the FY 2018 AFRI program.
