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Global Center for Food Systems Innovation Grants

Global Center for Food Systems Innovation Grants

Michigan State University’s Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI) is seeking applicants who can help create innovation in the global food system by finding, incubating and evaluating new and potentially game-changing knowledge and technology based solutions to development challenges, especially those related to population growth, climate change and urbanization.

This RFA requests applications at the following three grant levels:

  1. Innovation Scalability Grants (maximum USD500,000 each, with a required 1:1 match)

  2. Innovation Evaluation Grants (maximum USD250,000 each)

  3. Early Stage Innovation Grants (maximum USD100,000 each)

Innovations, proposals and ideas can come from any country. However, in order for proposals to be considered they must propose implementation to occur in one of the following countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Rwanda, Tanzania, Philippines, Uganda, and Zambia.

The application deadline is 16 March, 2015, at 17:00 US Eastern Time

Please see this page for details. For queries, please contact: panafrica.awards@royalsociety.org