Global Climate-Smart Agriculture Research Efforts Receive Funding

AgMission™, a global initiative co-founded by the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) to unlock agriculture’s potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, has partnered with PepsiCo to award three grants to researchers in Australia, Mexico and Canada, for a total combined $6.7 million investment to support evidence-based research on the effectiveness of climate-smart agriculture practices that incorporate regenerative agriculture principles. All three grantees awarded through this effort will work closely with farmers and farmer organizations to co-develop transition plans to introduce regenerative practices, improve understanding of the impacts and outcomes, and contribute to scientific evidence that can help overcome widespread adoption challenges. By uncovering best practices for implementation and data reinforcing the environmental benefits of regenerative farming, this new research aims to create more productive, climate-resilient farms. The initiative awarded a $748,394 grant to Charles Sturt University to examine climate-smart agriculture practices in cropping and enhance the climate resilience of local Australian grain producers, a $750,000 grant to the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to accelerate the adoption of regenerative climate-smart agricultural practices in wheat and maize in Mexico, and a $749,346 grant to South East Research Farm to develop innovative cover crop strategies that can drive climate-smart agriculture adoption in Canada’s eastern Prairie provinces.