Deadline: 7 September 2014
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invites pre-proposals for agricultural research with the potential to increase the sustainable productivity of smallholder farmers in developing countries. The Program for Emerging Agricultural Research Leaders (PEARL) seeks the projects led by MSc and PhD scientists at national agricultural research institutions and universities in sub-Saharan Africa, working in collaboration with other researchers internationally (either within Africa or beyond the continent).
Grant proposal can be made in between $200,000 and $500,000 for a period of 4 years or less.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant organization must be led by a scientist based in sub-Saharan Africa at a national agricultural research institution or university.
- Applicants must involve a partnership with at least one international research collaborator (research partner can reside in any country other than the applicant’s home country, and may include collaborations within Africa). The role and value of the proposed international research collaborator must be clear.
- Submissions must closely align with the goals of the Gates Foundation’s Agricultural Development strategy.
- Application must clearly propose a research project with the potential to substantially increase the sustainable productivity of smallholder farmers in developing countries within the next 5-20 years and must clearly describe how the proposed work fits with related ongoing work in the country or region.
- Proposed project must have potential applicability to one or more of the following crop species- maize, wheat, rice, millet, sorghum, cassava, sweet potatoes, yams, beans, cowpeas, chickpeas, groundnuts, and banana.
Note: Applicants in need of an international collaborator are invited to apply for the Agricultural Research Connections Workshops to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, summer 2014.
For more information, please visit RFP Summary Program for Emerging Agricultural Research Leaders.
we are a NGO from INDIA supporting the HIV/AIDS affected children, street vagrant children and aged people. We need guidance and advice to do our service to the needy and poor people, and expect monetary help and managerial support to sustain the organization.
Dear Sir,
It is rather disheartening to find most funding opportunities go to MSc and PHD holders who in most cases either do not wish to apply or are not directly involved with grass-root activities, meanwhile some of us who are very interested and have been working with community based organizations at the grass-root with over 10 years of field experience have no opportunity to apply. I am a Cameroonian rural leader currently in Japan studying organic farming and sustainable agriculture with a dream of going back to Cameroon in December to restitute my training with pilot sample farms in the different communities which my organization works. My dream of this back home research falls in line with the PEARL objective but because of my qualification I am not eligible meanwhile I think I am very qualified for the funding. What can I do in a situation like this?