Fwd: On Behalf of Jean Harvey, CALS Interim Dean ~ UVM-ARS Food Systems RFA - Due June 1, 2020

Dear Colleagues,

 

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is pleased to invite proposals for $75,000 awards for research that will support the new UVM-ARS Center for Food Systems Research.  The mission of this newly developed center is described in full in the attached document but briefly is as follows:

 

The Center will become a leader in food systems sustainability research, with a core focus on small and medium farms. It will develop new knowledge that expands our understanding of the suite of benefits that small and medium farms contribute to farm families, local and global communities, and people that consume their products. A key goal of the Center is to improve our ability to measure and document sustainability outcomes from small and medium farms that may not be fully recognized or valued by markets and policies.    

 

The ambitious research goals of the Center can only be realized by catalyzing the broader UVM community in a process to identify the types of metrics, measurement techniques, analysis and integration that is necessary and possible across scales to measure small and medium farm sustainability.  Therefore, the Center invites proposals for concept/white papers to identify the suite of key food system metrics, measurement techniques, and/or data integration tools that can be deployed across the Center's research projects. 

 

Proposals are due June 1, 2020 in the Dean's Office of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (see attached RFA for details).  Awards will begin July 1, 2020 and end December 15, 2020. 

Please direct questions to Jean Harvey, Interim Dean, CALS (jharvey@uvm.edu)

 

 

Jean R. Harvey, PhD, RDN

Interim Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Robert L. Bickford, Jr. Endowed Professor

University of Vermont

146 University Place; 108 Morrill Hall

Burlington, VT 05405

Ph: 802-656-0668