Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Rapid Response Food and Agricultural Science for Emergency Issues

This program provides a mechanism to quickly provide the science necessary to more effectively respond to important emerging issues vital to agriculture, food science and related natural and human resources. Considerable effort in working with stakeholders goes into structuring the programs and priorities for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Request for Applications (RFA) across the six emphasis areas. However, as time moves on there are emerging issues in agriculture and food science that are so critically important that a rapid response before the next AFRI RFA release is justified. This program is designed to meet that need. Specific Rapid Response solicitations will have separate Funding Opportunity pages.

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Who Is Eligible to Apply

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This program is integrated. Please refer to Part III, A of the current Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Request for Applications for the complete eligibility requirements.

Request for Application (RFA) | Apply: Electronic

Solicitation Date (Opening)	December 17, 2008
Letter of Intent Due Date	July 30, 2009
Due Date (Closing)	August 31, 2009
Anticipated Award Date	None
Estimated Total Program Funding	$1,000,000.00
Range of Awards	$0.00 to $250,000.00
Percent of Applications Funded Last Fiscal Year	0%
Cost Sharing Requirements	For equipment grants and if commodity specific. See RFA for details.
For More Information Contact	Mark Poth
Funding Opportunity Number	USDA-CSREES-AFRI-002010
CFDA Number	10.310 - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative
Contact for Electronic Access Problems	webcomments@csrees.usda.gov