Efficiency for Access R&D Fund

Fund details & eligibility

Under the latest call, support will be provided to develop agricultural technologies such as:

• Post-harvest management including harvesting, handling, storage, processing, and transportation;
• And improvements to food systems in horticulture, dairy, fishing and livestock.

To be in scope for this call, R&D projects must:

• Develop or improve an innovative electrical appliance for use in off- and/or weak grid settings; AND
• Improve post-harvest resilience and productivity of food systems, while reducing their environmental impact. Improved resilience and productivity can be achieved in any of the following ways: ensuring and increasing incomes, expanding access to markets, reducing waste and loss, and improving the operations, service and maintenance of essential equipment within one or more value chains of a food system.