The call for proposals will fund up to $1.2 million in projects to support innovations that meet growing food demand without affecting natural resources.

Photo: FONTAGRO’s 2016 Photo Competition. Potato crops. Author: Christian Inga

 (Washington, D.C., July 28, 2017) FONTAGRO’s Technical Administrative Secretariat (TAS) is pleased to announce the project proposals that have been selected to submit final formal proposals, within the framework of FONTAGRO’s 2017 Call for Proposals on “Innovations for the sustainable intensification of family agriculture in response to climate change.”

FONTAGRO received 210 proposals, 84 of which met the formal eligibility, congruence, regionality, and technical capacity criteria provided for in the external evaluation. Sixteen proposals obtained a score equal to or higher than 75 points. Those projects were therefore invited to submit formal final proposals to be considered in the second phase of the process.

The following 16 projects were invited to submit final proposals:

 

ID	Short Title	Executing Agency	Contact Information	Email Address
17098	Early Warning Signs for Managing Potato Late Blight	National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA), Chile	Ivette Acuña	iacuna@inia.cl
17077	System for Evaluating the Sustainability and Applicability of Agroecological Intensification Models in High-Mountain Coffee Plantations in Tropical Areas, to Contribute to the Adaptation to Climate Change	Universidad Nacional-Escuela de Ciencias Agrarias, Costa Rica; Instituto de Estudios Interculturales de la Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia	Rafael Evelio Granados Carvajal; Marta Elena Montaño	Rafagranado@gmial.com; Memontano4@hotmail.com
17072	Sustainable Intensification of Family Agriculture in Peru and Bolivia’s Altiplano: Using Virtual Platforms and Rural Schools to Facilitate Innovation	Centro de Investigacion de Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente, Perú	Roberto Valdivia F.	rvaldivia@cirnma.org
17083	Platforms for Sustainable Agriculture in Chile and Peru	Reset Tecnología y Plataformas SPA, Chile	Ángel Medina Vega	angelmedina@reset.cl
17125	Improving and Scaling up Agricultural and Institutional Innovations That Sustainably Intensify and Diversify Family Agriculture, Improve Food and Nutrition Security, and Enhance Small Producers’ Resilience to Climate Change	Dominican Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (IDIAF), Dominican Republic	Juan Reyes Frómeta	jreyes@idiaf.gov.do
17153	Socio-Ecological Resilience to Climatic Adversity	National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA), Argentina	Pablo Tittonell	Tittonell.pablo@inta.gob.ar
17071	Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture through the Participatory Generation of Agroclimatic Information for Small Producers in Honduras and Colombia	Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG) Unidad de Agroambiente, Cambio Climático y Gestión del Riesgo, Honduras	Ricardo Peña Ramirez	rpenaramirez@yahoo.com
17055	Sustainable Family Agriculture and Climate Change	Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Perú	Carlos Alfredo Gomez Bravo	cagomez@lamolina.edu.pe
17106	Innovating and Intensifying Livestock Production to Adapt and Grow: Increasing the Adaptive Capacity and Resilience of Family Systems toward Extensive Livestock Production That Is Better Prepared for Climate Change in Argentina, Peru, and Venezuela	National Agricultural Technology Institute INTA-Bariloche, Argentina	Edgar Sebastián Villagra	villagra.sebastian@inta.gob.ar
17158	Sustainable Innovation for Horticultural Production	National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA), Argentina	Edurne Battista	battista.edurne@inta.gob.ar
17176	Sustainable Roots and Tubers in Response to Climate Change	Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research (CORPOICA), Colombia	Liliana Atencio Solano	latencio@corpoica.org.co
17166	Diversifying the Food Management and Sustainability of the Amazon Food Basket	Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM, Ecuador	María Gabriela Zurita Benavides; María Cristina Peñuela Mora	mariagabriela.zurita@ikiam.edu.ec; mariacristina.penuela@ikiam.edu.ec
17171	Participatory Research with an Agroecological Approach to Innovate the Berry Production Chain	Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research (CORPOICA), Colombia	José Mauricio Montes Rodríguez	jmontesr@corpoica.org.co
17063	Predictive Model of Sustainable Coffee Intensification	Fundacion Carcafe, Colombia	Vivian Vasquez	VVasquez@Carcafe.com.co
17135	More Rice with Lower Emissions and Lower Water Consumption	FEDEARROZ, Colombia	Myriam Patricia Guzmán	patriciaguzman@fedearroz.com.co
17203	Learning, Innovating, and Scaling up Capacity of Agroecological Practices in Sustainable Family Agriculture in Two Climatic Zones: Honduras and Nicaragua	Fundación Madre Tierra (FUMAT),  Nicaragua	William Muñoz Quintero	wmunozq@gmail.com

To see the full table (in Spanish), click here.

 

Note (1): Pursuant to the Terms of Reference of the call for proposals (paragraph 37), each platform shall decide whether to accept the participation of new organizations when preparing its final proposal.

Note (2): FONTAGRO’s Technical Administrative Secretariat (STA) will contact each short-listed project individually to go over the next steps regarding final proposal preparation and submission.

 

FONTAGRO’s Technical Administrative Secretariat would like to thank all of the organizations that participated in its 2017 call for proposals, as well as wish them much success in their respective fields of work and invite them to submit proposals in the future.

For more information, you may email your queries to fontagro@iadb.org.

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ABOUT FONTAGRO

FONTAGRO is a unique regional cooperation mechanism that promotes family agriculture, competitiveness, and food security. It was established in 1998 and it includes fifteen member countries that have contributed a capital of some $100 million. FONTAGRO is sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). Its Technical Administrative Secretariat is based at IDB headquarters in Washington, D.C. FONTAGRO has cofinanced more than 100 projects and initiatives in its member countries for an approximate amount of $88.7 million, including contributions from other sources of funding and executing agencies. Its member countries are Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

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