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Agriculture & Food Security Grants in the United Kingdom

Tenders and grants across agriculture and food security — crop production inputs, irrigation systems, agri-processing facilities, livestock programmes, rural extension services, food storage and logistics, and climate-smart agriculture. Curated for agribusinesses, farming cooperatives, rural development NGOs, agri-tech firms and food security consultancies.

19 open grants in this category

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Agriculture & Food Security Opportunities

Tenders and grants across agriculture and food security — crop production inputs, irrigation systems, agri-processing facilities, livestock programmes, rural extension services, food storage and logistics, and climate-smart agriculture. Curated for agribusinesses, farming cooperatives, rural development NGOs, agri-tech firms and food security consultancies.

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Call for Proposals: Selecting an implementing partner for the Regional Grant "Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Impact Results

Call for Proposals: Selecting an implementing partner for the grant "Public-Private Producer Partnerships for Sustainable Irrigation Development Investments in East and Southern Africa (4P4SID)

Call for Proposals: Supporting Farmers' Organizations to Deliver Rapid Crisis Response and Strengthen Rural Resilience

Open GB trees-woodlands-and-forestry---woodland-creation-planning-grant-1

You can apply for £1,500 to complete Stage 1 of the WCPG application. This is for a desk-based exercise to identify the constraints and opportunities affecting the proposed planting. If there’s potential for woodland creation to take place on the site, then you will be offered a stage 2 payment. At stage 2,  you can get £150 per hectare, minus the £1,500 offered at stage 1, to complete stage 2 of the Woodland Creation Design Plan Template. You may get supplementary payments for specialist survey work if a need for them is identified at stage 1. If your application is under ten hectares in size, we will make a minimum payment of £500 for stage 2. The total amount of funding is capped at £30,500 per project. The funding will support you to gather and analyse the information that you need ...

Call for Proposals: Selecting an Implementing Partner for the Grant Evidence for Scale-Up of AgTech and FinTech Solutions through IFAD’s PoLG

Call for Proposals: Strengthening the Macadamia Nuts Export Value Chain in Rwanda – ELPS

Call for Proposals: Strengthening Sesame Value Chain in Bangladesh – ELPS

Call for Proposals: IFAD Support for Food Systems Transformation in the Central Sahel

Call for Proposals: FO4IMPACT (Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia)

Call for Proposals: FO4IMPACT (Latin American and the Caribbean)

Call for proposals: Increase the impact of digital remittances in rural Morocco

Open GB england-woodland-creation-offer-ewco-1

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs / Forestry Commission – Nature for Climate Fund You can apply to get money to help create new woodland through the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO). You can get up to £10,200 per hectare to create the woodland. You could also get up to £12,700 in additional payments if your woodland contributes to the local community, nature recovery or the environment. For more information, read the guidance on how EWCO works on GOV.UK. You can access all EWCO-related guidance and forms on the GOV.UK EWCO collection page. Eligibility All landowners, land managers and public bodies can apply. The land you own or manage must be: entirely within England under your management control for the full duration of the agreement – if it’s not you’ll need to...

Call for Proposals - Regional Grant: "Safeguarding Rural Livelihoods in Latin America and the Caribbean. Roadblocks, Opportunities, and Actionable Measures for a Potential Remittances Crisis

Request for expression of interest: Strengthening the macadamia nut export value chain in Rwanda

RE-ADVERTISED | Call for proposals: IFAD grant to implement the initiative "Leveraging IFAD’s Rural Sector Performance Assessment for Policy and Investment

Open GB full-adopt-grant-round-10-1
United Kingdom $25,000 - $160,000 2 Dec 2026 (20 days left)

Description The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will invest up to £5 million for on-farm trials and farm experiment projects. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received. This funding is part of Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme, delivered in partnership with Innovate UK. The aim of this competition is to support innovative, on-farm trials or experiments to test ideas or solutions and demonstrate that they will address major on-farm or immediate post farmgate challenges or opportunities. Your project must have the potential to significantly improve one or more of the following: productivity resilience sustainability and progression towards net zero farming Your proposal must demonstrate to other English farmers, grower...

Open GB forest-creation-grant-1
United Kingdom $1,500 - $1,000,000 1 Feb 2027 (80 days left)

The Forest Creation Grant supports landowners and tenants within the National Forest or close to its boundary to take part in our shared vision of transformation through forests. By planting trees and creating thriving wooded landscapes, applicants help shape a greener, more resilient future for nature, communities and local enterprise. Whether your aim is to create new woodland, enhance and connect habitats, protect livestock, soils or crops, or develop innovative woodland-based products, this grant offers the support you need to grow forests for the future starting with schemes as small as 0.25 hectares. Applications are assessed on the contribution they make to the National Forest’s mission: To grow forests for the future: restoring nature, connecting communities and enhancing enterp...

Open GB improve-animal-health-and-welfare-1
United Kingdom $10 - $1,000 20 Jun 2027 (219 days left)

There are 2 parts to the service: animal health and welfare review endemic disease follow-up You can choose the vet you want to do these. The review and follow-up are not an inspection or audit. If you are a farmer who is a vet, you cannot carry out your own visit, you must use another vet. As part of your IAHW agreement, you can have up to: 3 reviews on any number of herds or flocks of one or more species from the list of eligible livestock – beef cattle, dairy cattle, pigs or sheep 3 follow-ups on any number of herds or flocks of one or more species from the list of eligible livestock – beef cattle, dairy cattle, pigs or sheep Animal health and welfare review During a review, the vet will: test for endemic disease (for cattle and pigs) test the effectiveness of medicines to treat worm...

Open GB poultry-biosecurity-review-1
United Kingdom $1 - $430 1 Oct 2028 (688 days left)

This grant will support veterinary surgeon led review and advice to improve biosecurity on eligible poultry farms. The aim of the scheme is to use improved biosecurity measures to reduce the incidence of disease on poultry farms, including avian influenza, improving animal health and welfare and productivity. The deadline to apply is 30 September 2028. Reviews must be completed by 31 December 2028. Claims must be submitted by 31 March 2029. Eligibility You can apply if your business is based and registered in England and you’re a poultry keeper with the minimum number of birds of at least one of the following species: · 1000 egg-laying hens · 1000 breeding chickens · 1000 meat chickens · 500 geese · 500 ducks · 500 turkeys Species numbers can’t be combined eg 200 ducks and 300 turkeys. ...

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