Funding Opportunities for the Western Region
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) Requests Applications for FY2009 for Integrated Pest Management: Crops at Risk, Risk Avoidance and Mitigation, and Methyl Bromide Transitions Competitive Grants Programs (Deadline is May 11, 2009)
CSREES requests applications for the following programs:
1) Integrated Pest Management: Crops at Risk Competitive Grants Program
(CAR), 2) Integrated Pest Management: Risk Avoidance and Mitigation,
and 3) Methyl Bromide Transitions.
Integrated Pest Management: Crops at Risk
The goal of the CAR program is to
enhance the development and implementation of innovative, ecologically
based sustainable IPM system(s). Preferably, this should involve a
diversity of tactics and approaches for a single or specific food or fiber
commodity in commercial production for pre- and/or post-harvest system(s).
The program addresses either a major acreage or high value crop commodity
such as key fruits and vegetables. The primary emphasis is on crop productivity
and profitability, while addressing critical environmental quality and human
health issues. The CAR program will fund integrated multifunctional/multidisciplinary
research, education, and extension projects for crops with high priority
IPM needs as identified by stakeholders.
Integrated Pest Management:
Risk Avoidance and Mitigation Competitive Grants Program (RAMP)
The goal of
the Risk Avoidance and Mitigation (RAMP) program is to enhance the
development and implementation of innovative, ecologically based sustainable
IPM strategies and system(s) for (a) multi-crop food and fiber production
systems; (b) an area-wide or a landscape scale agroecosystem; or (c)
a documented pesticide impact on water, human or environmental health.
RAMP applications may address major acreage agricultural production
systems, high value crops such as key fruit and vegetable systems,
or other agroecosystems. The primary emphasis of the application should
be on productivity and profitability while addressing critical environmental
quality and human health issues. The intent of RAMP is to fund medium-term
projects that emphasize systems approaches.
Integrated Pest
Management: Methyl Bromide Transitions Competitive Grants Program (MBT)
The
goal of the Methyl Bromide Transitions (MBT) program is to support
the discovery and implementation of practical pest management alternatives
to methyl bromide uses or minimize methyl bromide emissions for which
the United States is requesting critical use exemptions. The program
is focused on integrated commercial or field scale research that targets
short- to medium-term solutions.These are Integrated Pest Management
(IPM) Programs designed to support integrated, multifunctional/multidisciplinary
agricultural research, extension, and education activities that address
complex pest management priorities in United States agriculture.
The anticipated amount available for support of CAR in FY 2009 is approximately
$1,300,000. The anticipated amount available for support of RAMP in
FY 2009 is approximately $4,200,000. The anticipated amount available
for support of MBT in FY 2009 is approximately $2,950,000.
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