FFAR-OCP Disruptive Fertilizer Technology Fellowship Program

Overview

FFAR-OCP Disruptive Fertilizer Technology Fellowship Program

Fertilizers are an essential input to produce healthy, high-yielding crops; however, plants may not absorb all the fertilizer applied, and excess fertilizer can produce harmful environmental consequences. Farmers need improved fertilizer technologies and guidance to improve soil and plant health, crop productivity and environmental resilience.

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and OCP North America (OCPNA), a subsidiary of the global plant-nutrition company OCP Group, created the FFAR-OCP Disruptive Fertilizer Technology Fellowship (FFAR-OCP Fellowship) to provide early-career scientists with opportunities to advance research on precision fertilizer application methods, nutrient recommendation methods and guidance on land applications of animal waste to customize and enhance fertilizer efficiency. Ultimately, the FFAR-OCP Fellowship intends to deliver new innovations in fertilizer products that are safe, effective, commercially scalable and easily understood by farmers. The FFAR-OCP Fellowship is a two-year program supported by $250,000 from both FFAR and OCP North America for a total program fund of $500,000.

Funding Availability

Awardees will receive a maximum of $75,000 and will cover 12 to 24 months of funding to conduct projects in fertilizer efficiency research and technology development that have already demonstrated promise in a first phase of research and would clearly benefit from a catalytic push to achieve proof of concept or early product development to progress to a second phase.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* The FFAR OCP Fellowship will provide stipend support for up to five early career scientists (within up to ten years of receiving a Ph.D.) and seeks to enable high impact research in the focus areas of the project.

Ineligibility

* The FFAR OCP Fellows Program will not support brand new research proposals without any prior history of research progress.
* Matching funds are not required for this program.