The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems (LSIL), based at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida, is soliciting Request for Applications (RFA) in the target country of Cambodia.
The overall aim of the LSIL is to enhance the production, marketing and consumption of Animal-Source Foods (ASF) in order to increase the incomes, livelihoods, nutrition, and health of households, especially those of vulnerable women and children. This will be achieved 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 LSIL will draw on the expertise of Cambodian, U.S. and foreign universities, institutes and organizations through competitively-funded multi-disciplinary, integrated and applied research and capacity-building projects.
Proposals may be for Reach Grants, longer-term projects with a budget of up to $850,000, or Focus Grants, which are smaller, proof of concept studies with budgets of up to $100,000.
Find info about the RFA on the lab’s website.
Deadline for submission of questions is Nov. 16.
Deadline for submission of Reach Grant concept notes is Dec. 12; deadline for submission of selected Reach Grant concept notes as full proposals is Feb. 3, 2017.
Deadline for submission of Focus Grant proposals is Jan. 13, 2017.
Email the LSIL at livestock-lab@ufl.edu.