Collaborative Crop Research Program of the The McKnight Foundation

The Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) is a competitive grants program funded by The McKnight Foundation for the purpose of increasing food security for resource-poor people in developing countries. As of 3/23/2009 , the program supports 26 collaborative projects in 17 countries around the world.

Key features of the CCRP include:

• Partnership between researchers in developing countries and industrialized countries, and/or among those in regional research, development and farmer organizations.
• Leadership by scientists in developing countries
• Focus on neglected or under-researched crops and/or problems

There are currently two active calls for concept notes.

The McKnight Foundation CCRP has issued two calls for concept notes within the West Africa and East and Horn of Africa Communities of Practice.

West Africa
The deadline to submit a concept note is April 10, 2009.

East and Horn of Africa
The deadline to submit a concept note is April 23, 2009.

For more information and templates for the proposals please visit the CCRP website.

mcknight_east_africa.pdf (77kb) – mcknight_west_africa.pdf (76 kb)

This post is taken from www.climate-agrobiodiversityplatform.org

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