Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Foundational and Applied Science Program: Pollinator Health

The application deadline is October 9, 2025.
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is America’s flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences. Funding is available for numerous priorities in six program areas. The pollinator health program area priority supports novel hypothesis-driven research projects focused on improving our fundamental understanding of the factors and underlying mechanisms that drive pollinator declines and to develop innovative applied solutions that mitigate these factors and promote healthy populations of pollinators in agricultural systems. Studies involving ecological, behavioral, genomic, physiological, biophysical, sociological, and/or economic approaches will be considered for funding. The maximum award amount is $750,000.