National Geographic Society Call for Proposals: Building Resilience in Agriculture 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2025

The National Geographic Society is asking for proposals on Building Resilience in Agriculture. This funding OPPORTUNITY will assist modern initiatives that apply science and innovation in an actual-world context, centered on possible, nature-optimistic options.

The initiatives ought to have measurable outcomes on the resilience of farms, farming communities, and pure ecosystems in the farming landscapes to the realities of adjusting climates and excessive climate occasions. The initiatives will show, measure, and assist practices and approaches which are regenerative. The mission’s foremost targets should purpose to make farms, farming communities, and pure ecosystems extra resilient and show two or extra of the next outcomes:

• Soil Health: Build the well being and fertility of the soil to assist a wholesome and productive ecosystem above and under floor.
• Climate Mitigation and Adaptation: Increase resilience to local weather change impacts, sequester carbon, and scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions.
• Watershed Health: Improve watershed well being by decreasing nutrient runoff and the amount of water wanted for farms and communities to thrive.
• Biodiversity: Protect and enhance biodiversity throughout agricultural landscapes – examples embrace forest conservation and restoration, bees and different pollinators for crops in addition to bettering the soil microbiome.
• Improved Livelihoods: Improve livelihoods in regionally contextualized methods, making certain farmers’ entry to coaching, determination making and sources to implement sustainable agricultural practices and obtain improved farm efficiency.

Benefits

grant recipients grow to be National Geographic Explorers, will be part of the Explorer Community, and will likely be eligible for future studying, capability constructing, and networking alternatives.

In addition, grant recipients:

• could have to be out there to journey to Europe for an occasion quickly after receiving notification of awards in January, 2026;
• will journey to the National Geographic Society’s Base Camp headquarters in Washington DC for a multi-day gathering to fulfill Society workers and key companions in 2026.
• could obtain further mentorship, coaching, and different elevation alternatives as people and as a cohort; and,
• may be featured in communications supplies by the Society and/or the funding companion that will embrace (however will not be restricted to) video and images associated to themselves, the mission, and their outcomes, shared by numerous media platforms.

Eligibility

• Requested mission funds could not exceed $150,000;
• Applicant should not be a present National Geographic Society workers member;
• Applicant should be over the age of 18;
• Project should be accomplished inside 2 years of receipt of funding;
• Applications should be submitted in English, though English doesn’t must be the PI’s main language;
• The mission contains a number of of the next terrestrial meals crops: corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, sugar beets, oilseeds (i.e. canola, sunflower, rice bran), rice, oats, cocoa, oil palm, raisins and soy;
• The mission has a predominant area or land element the place options are utilized and examined on a farm, in a farming group, or in a panorama adjoining to cultivated land;
• The application contains mission collaborator(s) who’ve applicable farming or farming group experience and native connections.

Application

They will solely settle for functions which are submitted by the application portal. Applications submitted by electronic mail, mail or submit is not going to be accepted.

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For extra info, go to National Geographic Society.