Farming Futures R&D Fund: Sustainable farm-based protein, feasibility studies

Fund Details

Your project must seek to significantly improve:

• productivity
• sustainability and environmental impact of farming
• progression towards net zero emissions
• longer term resilience

Your proposal must:

• demonstrate environmental benefits and societal impact
• include clear project deliverables for measuring the sustainability of the solutions, and how they are preventing negative impact upon the sector
• be able to demonstrate how the solution and output will benefit farmers, growers or foresters in England
• ensure your solutions are closely aligned with industry priorities to deliver business-orientated and transformative opportunities
• consider how it will encourage dissemination and knowledge exchange to the wider sector

Specific Themes

Your project must be in one or more of the four industry subsectors:

• livestock
• plants
• novel animal feed production systems (such as algae, seaweed, insects, etc)
• bioeconomy and agroforestry

Your solutions can also support emerging production systems that create new sources of resource efficient, low emission proteins that address longer-term food security for mainstream consumers or animal feed users.

Your project must:

• have total costs between £200,000 and £500,000
• start by 1 April 2023
• end by 31 March 2025
• last up to 24 months
• be collaborative
• carry out all of its project work in the UK
• intend to exploit the results from or in England
• have a minimum of 50% of any grant that is requested by farmers, growers or foresters, allocated to farmers, growers or foresters based in England

Eligibility

Lead organisation

To lead a project your organisation must:

• be a UK registered business of any size,
• be a UK registered academic institution,
• be a UK registered research and technology organisation (RTO)
• collaborate with other UK registered organisations

If the lead organisation is an academic institution or an RTO it must collaborate with at least 2 businesses of any size.

Talk to us today if you would like to apply for this opportunity.