Farming Futures R&D Fund: Sustainable farm-based protein, industrial research

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.

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