Genome Canada Climate-Smart Agriculture And Food Systems Genomics Initiative Stage 1 – Registration

Aboriginal Peoples

Arctic and Northern Regions

Community, Regional & Enterprise Development

Environment, Energy and Natural Resources

Governance and Public Policy

Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery

Deadlines

Academic Unit: inquire with unit

Memorial Deadline: Tuesday 28th, June 2022

External Deadline: Monday 4th, July 2022

Description

RIS will be offering support with application development for this opportunity. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact Jennifer Stevens (v5js@mun.ca) or Karen Follett (kfollett@mun.ca) early during the development process to discuss the services available to them.

Climate change poses a significant risk to our agricultural systems, impacting the availability of
food and other vital resources, from fuels to the raw materials used to develop everyday products.
Canada is committed to ambitious action to reduce emissions including in the agriculture sector.
New technologies, products and approaches are required to reduce emissions, maintain
productivity and competitiveness, and ensure food security at home and abroad.
In response to this major challenge, Genome Canada’s latest large-scale genomics initiative will
support climate change mitigation and adaptation through strategic investments in climate-smart
agriculture and food systems.

Launched in May 2022, the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Systems initiative is
investing $30M in cutting-edge genomic research and innovation to reduce the carbon footprint
of Canada’s food production systems—building their resiliency, environmental sustainability and
economic viability.

INTERDISCIPLINARY CHALLENGE TEAMS (ICTS)

Approx. $24M

The Interdisciplinary Challenge Team Funding Opportunity ($24M) is the first of the programs to be launched under the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative.   Projects should involve multidisciplinary teams including GE³LS^* researchers, must focus on the use of genomic approaches to develop tools and technologies, and demonstrate significant potential to achieve impact in reduction the footprint of Canada’s food systems.  The funding process will involve three stages: Registration, Letter of Intent, and Full Application.   Co-funding will be required.

Eligible research themes include, but are not limited to:

• -Increasing production efficiencies to existing food systems while reducing environmental footprints
• -Carbon sequestration (cultivars, soil microbial communities etc.)
• -Sustainability in food production systems e.g., with decreased use of water, fertilizers, and pesticides; improving fish feed
• -Cellular agriculture (e.g., tissue engineering, precision fermentation techniques, etc.)
• -Controlled environment agriculture

SAVE THE DATE

July 20, 2022 (1:00-2:30 pm ET)
Virtual information session with members of registered ICTs

Downloads

GC-Climate-Action-Handout-WEB-EN

Funding Sources

Genome Canada