The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, International Climate Hub, announces this funding opportunity to support the Technical Agricultural Assistance Program by issuing new award(s). Thisopportunity is available to state cooperative institutions and other colleges and universities in the United States and is intended to support climate-informed decision making domestically and internationally.
The International Climate Hub is a year-old USDA initiative that builds on the model of USDA’s 10 regional climate hubs to translate climate science into action around the world. It supports domestic and international natural resource managers, country officials, researchers, students, and communities with three streams of work: scientific research and data synthesis; tools and resources; and training, outreach, and convening opportunities. These efforts are intended to lead to more climate-informed decision making, both at home and abroad. The International Climate Hub seeks to work closely with an institution with comparable goals to develop and execute initiatives where collaboration would yield stronger results than independent efforts.
The goal of this Notice of Funding Opportunity is to research and develop tangible outputs that analyze, demonstrate or predict climate impacts on global working lands and build resilience through recommended adaptation strategies or that reduce greenhouse gas impacts through recommended mitigation strategies; to improve international climate literacy involving the agriculture, ranching and forestry sectors; and to improve International Climate Hub information and services, and other related topics as proposed. The resulting outputs could include, but are not limited to, white papers published or co-published in peer-reviewed journals, summaries for non-technical audiences for the International Climate Hub website, the creation of tools for the audiences of the International Climate Hub, participation in trainings on the results of the research and outputs, creation of surveys, creation of training modules for International Climate Hub audiences, development of webinars, and the creation of supporting international events, study tours, and initiatives to increase climate related decision making and understanding in natural resources management.
Application Deadline: August 9, 2024
