Department of Pesticide Regulation- Sustainable Pest Management Grants Program

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation offers the Sustainable Pest Management Grants Program to support innovative projects that enhance sustainable pest management practices. The program aims to reduce pesticide impacts on human health and the environment, focusing on priority areas such as weed management, rodenticide use, and the use of high-interest pesticides. Projects should align with integrated pest management strategies and contribute to the three sustainability pillars of human health, environmental protection, and economic vitality.

Purpose
To promote safer, more sustainable pest management practices in California, the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) annually funds projects that advance sustainable pest management (SPM) practices through integrated pest management (IPM) research, knowledge, tools, outreach, and implementation in agricultural, urban, or wildland settings.
Description
DPR's SPM Grants Program supports projects that advance sustainable pest management practices through IPM research, knowledge, tools, outreach, and implementation in agricultural, urban, or wildland settings. Projects should focus on reducing impacts to human health or the environment from pesticides of high regulatory interest. The 2026 SPM Grants Program is particularly seeking proposal applications that also address one or more of the following priority topic areas:
Weed management          Rodenticide use          Fumigant use          Use of pesticides that are of high regulatory interest (based on DPR’s Pesticide Use Reporting data) or are present on DPR’s Continuous Evaluation and Mitigation Update report          Two or more of the three sustainability pillars in the SPM Roadmap:                  Human Health and Social Equity                  Environmental Protections                  Economic Vitality