The Feed the Future Livestock Systems Innovation Lab is seeking grant proposals for projects in the target countries of Ethiopia, Nepal and Rwanda. The LSIL is based at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida and works in partnership with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).
The aim of LSIL is to improve the nutrition, health and incomes of the poor by sustainably increasing livestock productivity and marketing and consumption of animal-source foods. This aim will be achieved using by introducing new location-appropriate technologies, by improving management practices, skills, knowledge, capacity and access to and quality of inputs across livestock value chains, and by supporting the development of a policy environment that fosters sustainable intensification and increased profitability of smallholder livestock systems.
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems (LSIL) will draw on the expertise of target country, U.S. and foreign universities, institutes and organizations through competitively-funded long-term, multi-disciplinary, integrated applied research and capacity-building projects. The competitive subaward projects will address country-specific research and capacity building priorities that were developed in a participatory manner with key local and national stakeholders in each country.
Two types of grants will be funded:
Reach Grants – longer term large grants with a project period of up to four years starting in October 2016 and a budget of up to $1 million.
Focus Grants – smaller grants for proof of concept studies or research for development bridging studies providing immediate or near-term (within one year) impact. These projects will last for three months to one year and will have budgets of up to $100,000.
Go to the innovation lab’s website for supporting documents. To contact LSIL, please send an email to livestocklab@ufl.edu
Any written questions are due by June 3; Reach grant concept notes are due June 23 and full proposals by Aug. 5. Focus grant proposals are due by July 2.
The LSIL is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through a five-year Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement Award No. AID-OAA-L-15-00003.