INNOVATIVE approaches and ideas for island conservation in relation to agricultural production may be eligible for funding, according to a United States Department of Agriculture-National Resource Conservation Service grant.
As posted in the NRCS website, the Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) for 2012 has an allocation of up to $263,000 for successful grantees in the Pacific Islands Area.
The grant information indicated that the CIG grants “target individual producers and smaller organizations that may possess promising innovations, but may not compete well on the larger scale of the national grants competition.”
According to the NRCS website, applicants from American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands are covered under the CIG grant.
Proposals focusing on addressing water, soil, atmosphere, grazing land, forest health, energy conservation, renewable energy, and wildlife conservation or other natural concerns will be considered.
Past CIG grantees on Guam, according to the NRCS website, include the University of Guam, whose proposal on an integrated pest management system for managing insect pests on cabbage was funded last 2008.
Full information about the grant is available here.
Grants for innovative conservation
- Wednesday, 23 May 2012 03:30am
- BY LOUELLA LOSINIO | VARIETY NEWS STAFF
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