2024 - 2025 Winners Announced
Selected by Embrapa:
Gerrit Hoogenboom, Preeminent Scholar and Professor, Ag and Biological Engineering, Marcio Resende, Associate Professor, Horticultural Sciences, and Lincoln Zotarelli, Professor, Horticultural Sciences.
Project: A scientific platform to evaluate impacts, adaptation, and mitigation of climate change and design for sustainable management practices.
Hui-Ling (Sunny) Liao, Associate Professor, Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences, North Florida REC.
Project: Biotechnology tools and gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9 in the interaction of sorghum cultivars and diazotrophic bacterias as a means to measure adaptation to climate changes.
Selected by UF/IFAS:
Nikolaos Tziolas, Assistant Professor, Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences, South West REC, Clyde Fraisse, Professor, Ag and Biological Engineering, Jose Dubeux, Professor, Agronomy, and Sarah Strauss, Associate Professor, Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences, South West REC.
Project: Integrated crop-livestock systems, climate change, soil health, and crop insurance: How are they linked?
CONGRATULATIONS!
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Award purpose
The purpose of this award is to encourage collaborative research with EMBRAPA scientists to address climate change research topics. The total amount available is $140,000 for one proposal.
Projects can focus on one or more of the following subtopics. However, additional ideas will also be considered:
- Technological solutions to increase the adaptive capacity of agricultural systems and the development of sustainability indicators, primarily in regions where there is a projected occurrence of severe water deficits and a strong rise in temperature due to climate change.
- Methods, techniques, and tools for managing national agricultural and climate data and information aimed at improving the scope and representativeness of agricultural systems in line with the Paris Agreement Enhanced Transparency process (tier 2 and 3) in national inventories, considering the TACCC principles (Transparency, Accuracy, Completeness, Comparability and Consistency).
- A plan for mitigating livestock or crop production systems emissions, or both.
- Development of mathematical growth and carbon balance models for the quantification of methane, CO2, and other GHG emissions, contributing to the national inventory, focusing on flooded systems, cattle ranching, and waste management.
- Technologies aimed at improving soil conditioners, soil health, resilience of the productive system, adaptive capacity and immobilization of organic carbon associated with monitoring techniques and strategies (MRV) compatible with national GHG inventories.
- Improvement of techniques and tools for agricultural zoning of climate risks and crop and or livestock monitoring.
- Modeling and projecting agricultural vulnerability scenarios (from global and regionalized CMIP6 climate scenarios) for crops and/or livestock of interest to both parties.
- Analysis of the impact of climate change on the development and production of coniferous forest systems.
